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SEPTEMBER, 1942

VOLUME 45 NUMBER 9
RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

"We western Home Makers

want fo do more

for VICTORY!"

OU CAN do more ... by volunteering for conservation
duty on the Home Front. No formalities . . . and a
house dress or apron is the honored uniform. * The most
important asset to conserve is family health. Our govern-
ment wants us all well and strong. And the first essential
is a balanced diet, with ample vitamins and minerals. Nu-
trition ranks close to munitions in America's war program.
How you cook is almost as important as what you cook.
And since over 2,000,000 western homes cook with gas,
your gas company has "enlisted" too ... as your aide.
Among other war services, it has loaned its Home Service
representatives to help conduct community nutrition
classes. * Obtain details of this practical, free training
from your local newspapers or radio announcements, or

ask us.

SAVE VITAMINS, FOOD, FUEL. See helpful
suggestions in column at right. * Intelligent use of gas
and gas appliances will aid in the war effort.

MOUNTAIN FUEL SUPPLY COMPANY

Serving Twenty-three Utah Communities
Sales offices in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo

COOKING: Start vegeta-
bles fast in boiling water;
cook in minimum water to
conserve vitamins and min-
erals. Roast meats at low
temperature for flavor and
tenderness. This slow roast-
ing also reduces shrinkage
and makes cheaper cuts more
appetizing. * Plan complete
oven or broiler meals often.

HOT WATER: Make sure
thermostat is properly ad-
justed. Have leaking faucets
repaired. Avoid letting hot
water run unnecessarily, as
in rinsing dishes; use a pan
instead. * Save gas by rea-
sonable care, but encourage
daily bathing for health!

HEATING: Cold weather is
coming soon! Now is the
time to call your heating
dealer or plumber for fur-
nace inspection, adjustment
or overhauling, -k Remem-
ber too that overheating is
as unhealthful as underheat-
ing. The average recom-
mended by authorities is 70°.

REFRIGERATION: Keep

vegetables in the hydrator
compartment to conserve
vitamins and flavor. * Cook
frozen foods while still
frozen, or serve immediately
after thawing. * Serve tasty,
nutritious milk-and-egg
frozen desserts.

GAS

THE

VICTORY

FUU

Buy U, S.
War Savings

Bonds
and Stamps

By FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR.

A new glass, "Foamglas," so light that
*** it floats, will soon be used to make
life belts, life rafts, and lifeboats buoy-
ant. Ordinary glass is mixed with pure
carbon and heated until it gets soft,
and the carbon burns with oxygen
taken from the glass to form a gas,
filling the glass with numerous little
airtight cells. The glass is about one-
sixth as dense as water, about the same
as cork.

A nimals which live together may imi-
"^ tate each other's habits. The natur-
alist W. H. Hudson reported that a
cat and rabbit brought up together even
imitated each other's methods of eat-
ing. The cat might be seen "laborious-
ly gnawing at a cabbage stalk while
the rabbit licked a bone.'*

Come of the Tatdigvada, microscopic,
mitelike creatures, when dried com-
pletely, stop their metabolism, and their
life becomes latent. Weeks later, when
moistened, these dried-out animals re-
vive and their life becomes normal.

'T'he wind blows so hard on the coral
islet of Ibayat, in the Batanes group
of islands in the northeastern Philip-
pines, that in some parts each stalk of
sugar cane has to be pegged to the
ground to keep from being blown over.
■.4

/^Nsmium, a platinum-like metal, is the
^ densest known substance. It is,
in its most compact form, as much as
twenty-four times heavier than water.

+— — —

A rowboat, complete with seats and
^^ oars, has been constructed entirely
of the transparent plastic Lucite.
4

/"\nly ten percent of the timber re-
^ sources of Canada have been
tapped.

■4- 1

Tf living yeast cells are exposed to
ultraviolet light, nitrogen containing
materials are given off which stimulate
their growth.

TD y using phenolic plastic instead of
metals in gears Britain has reduced
the noise in factories by sixty-five per-
cent.
4

Tt is estimated that gasoline has enough
power to propel a car four hundred
fifty miles to the gallon, if means could
be devised to obtain completely efficient
Consumption. (Concluded on page 548)

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

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545

7>Mmproocmenf Era

"The Glory of God is Intelligence'

SEPTEMBER, 1942

VOLUME 45

NUMBER 9

"THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH"

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS,
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS, DEPART-
MENT OF EDUCATION, MUSIC COMMITTEE, WARD
TEACHERS, AND OTHER AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH
OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Heber J.

Grant,

John A.

Widtsoe,

Editors

Richard

L. Evans,

Managing Editor

Marba C

. Josephson,

Associate Editor

George Q.

Morris, General Mgr.

Lucy G. C<

innon, Associate Mgr.

J. K. Orton

, Business Mgr.

Sentence Sermons Heber J, Grant 555

QhjuUtdL J'swdwtsuiu

President J* Reuben Clark, Jr., Farmer John A, Widtsoe 556

The Gospel Tent Campaign Charles A. Callis 558

Changing Thought on the Book of Mormon

Amos N. and Alton D. Merrill 568

Evidences and Reconciliations: LIV — Why Are the Latter-
day Saints a Peculiar People? John A, Widtsoe 577

A Visit to the Scene of Early Priesthood: Melchizedek 587

Canadian Baptisms 551 The Work of the Seventy ....590

No Liquor-Tobacco: Aaronic 591

Open Letter 552 Ward Teaching 592

Conflict, Jack Bennett 559

Our Greatest Menace in This
War, Charles S. Longacre..572

"You May Smoke" 597

Elder Stephen L Richards Offers

Senate Prayer 554

Church Moves On 573

"Deseret News Troubadours"
Make History, Harold H. Jen-
son 575

Genealogy 593

Mutual Messages: Executives..594
Wilshire Ward Variety

^ Show 595

Scouts: Louis Deschamps,
Convert, Francis

Deschamps 596

Field Photos 594, 595, 598

Manhattan Sunday School

Frolic 598

Special J-szcduMA,

Promontory Albert L. Zobell, Jr. 560

The Signers of the Constitution Wendell J. Ashton 562

Excerpts from Letters of Brigham Young to his Wife, Harriet

Cook 564

New York, Cradle of Mormonism — Conclusion

Cyril D. Pearson 566

Sampler from the Past Arthur M. Richardson 569

Our Greatest Menace in This War Charles S. Longacre 572

Exploring the Universe, Frank- Light, Hallie Grigg 565

lin S. Harris, Jr 545 On the Book Rack 571

Firsts of the Bible 546 Homing: Why Meat Greases

Answers 595 Must Be Saved 578

Today's Man, Jack Sears 547

Telefacts 548

Priests' Dwellings in Teotihua-

can, Charles E. Dibble 549

Our Constitution Inspired,

George E. Gibby 565

Handy Hints 579

Here's How 579

Cooks' Corner, Josephine B.

Nichols 580

Index to Advertisers 596

Your Page and Ours 608

"The Strategy of Truth" Richard L. Evans 576

Schooling Marba C. Josephson 576

Conflict Jack Bennett 559

Walking, for Health James P. Sharp 561

Frontispiece: Prophetic Inci- The Prize, Jack Richards 585

dent, Hortense S. Andersen....553 Scriptural Crossword Puzzle....606
Poetry Page 570

JhsL Cov&h*

This study recalls in September, the month of the signing of the Constitution, all of
those things which, purchased at great cost, now make up our imperiled heritage.
Liberty Bell is held deeply in memory among those for whom it symbolizes liberty. The
photograph is used here by courtesy of the Maryland Casualty Company, Baltimore.

546

FIRSTS OF THE BIBLE

1. What was the first command?

2. Who built the first ship?

3. Who built the first city?

4. Who was the first sacred his-
torian?

5. Who was the first pilgrim?

6. What was the first recorded song
of the angels?

7. Who was the first man born that
was named by the Lord before his birth?

8. What was the first scriptural
song?

9. What was the first offering of
women recorded in the Bible?

10. Who was the first person raised
from death to life?

11. What is the first mountain men-
tioned in the Bible?

12. When was the Sabbath first in-
stituted, and by whom observed?

13. What was the text of the
Savior's first sermon?

14. What was the occasion for the
first voluntary fast recorded in the
Bible?

15. What was the first prayer for a
king?

(Answers will be found on page 595)

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Today's

man

By JACK SEARS

During an intermission at a music
recital two men, chums since boy-
hood, carried on serious conver-
sation. These men, about sixty, had
made their business a success. They
represented the old school of "maybe
they did and maybe they didn't finish
high school."

"John," remarked one, "I'm glad I've
made a go of my business, and that I
personally do not have to compete with
the well-trained young man of today.
With my limited education — as far as
schooling goes — I could not get to first
base against these trained young uni-
versity fellows."

"Hal, what you say about yourself
hits me even harder than it does you,"
remarked John. "I wonder if your
reasons are the same as mine for feeling
so."

"Well, this is an age of education,
and in my opinion the young man who
is not school-trained has less chance to
get anywhere than ever before. I've
done some thinking, especially since my
children began one by one to reach the
university. When they were young,
I used to brag about being a self-made

man. My children would look at me
with keen admiration, and my wife's
face beamed with approval.

"Today, realizing what the sincere
college boys and girls know and what

THE END, NO ONE KNOWS.

WILL TRY HIS LUCK AT RUNNING SOMETHING
HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT.

they accomplish, I keep mum about that
self-made man stuff!"

Hal continued. "See that couple
over there — third row in the two end
seats? I suppose seeing them here to-
day is what got me onto this college
subject."

"Yes, I see them," replied John, "and
it seems to me that man's face is fa-
miliar— let's see, didn't you send him
to my place for a job?"

"You're right; that's the same fellow;
but he came back to me and said you
couldn't use him."

"Well, you know why I didn't hire
him, don't you?"

"Sure I do. What you told him he

gets everywhere he applies. He's a man
without any special training, who does
several things just so-so, but who has
no ability to do any one thing well.
He's an untrained man trying to com-
pete with a group of well-balanced and
highly trained college men who are spe-
cialists in their field and who know
definitely where they are going. Why,

that fellow is twenty-six years old and
for the last six years he has found but

little work. He finished high school

and made no effort to go further in

school. He very quickly found a job

and between the age of sixteen and

twenty he had little trouble in getting

work because he expected but little pay;

in return little was expected of him.

"He has been going with that cap-
able and beautiful Miss Cole for six
years and they would like to get mar-
ried. He can't get a steady job, and
when he thinks he is established, along
comes an alert, well-trained man to
give him a shove out into the street.
Miss Cole — a college graduate — is
working and has a good position but
is afraid to give it up. No other fel-
low dare take her out; so on and on
they go, year after year, he getting
older each year and getting nowhere
and she becoming more and more con-
cerned about what the future offers.
They are truly in love, and I've tried
to place the young man in a job at
least twenty times.

"I don't have to say these things to
you because even you and I, in our own
business, are picking only well-trained
college men— men who have been taught
to think and act. This is truly the
trained man's age — the capable and pro-
gressive man with something to offer is
the one who has a grand chance today."

547

CHEER UP THE FURNITURE!

Renew drab chairs, table, breakfast
'* nook, with gleaming gay enamel.
Goes on easily. Quick-drying.
Washable. See how much *1 AA
you can re-do for as little as |*

DECORET ENAMEL

WALLS "COME CLEAN

This mild cleanser whisks away ~~{
grime, grease, fingerprints. Kind
to painted surfaces, tiles, walls.

FULLER WASH & CLEANER

NEW "STOVE,., for about 35e

Nothing like this heat - resisting
enamel for oven exterior, stove
pipes, etc. Shiny-black. Vz pint does
the trick!

DECORET BLACK STOVE ENAMEL . . .

Won't crack from heat!

LOOK AT YOUR CUPBOARDS!

Few things cost so little as smart cupboard-
trimming— do so much for the kitchen!_

Shelve! and interiors come to life
with colorful Decoret Enamel.
Goes right on over old paint.

Doors cry for decoration with
Decalcomania designs. Ready to
use. Just dip in water and apply.
They're permanent. Only a few
pennies each.

PROTECT

WHAT yOU HAVE.
MAKE /f CAST/

TELEFACT

MONEY SPENT ON AMUSEMENTS (except

HORSE AND DOG RACES MOVIES)

Exploring the Universe

(Concluded from page 545)

KJylon and rayon are now used in

™ addition to silk in the special paper

for money and U. S. government bonds.

A chemical, dicoumarin, first discov-
** ered in spoiling sweet clover in
haystacks, but since synthesized in the
laboratory, has been found of use in
reducing the clotting ability of the
blood. One use is the prevention of
blood clots forming in the large blood
vessels of the legs after operation.

A recently invented musical device
** will play the tones of any instru-
ment desired with the help of vacuum
tubes and electrical circuits similar to
those used in television transmitters.

Dlants need the daily rise and rail in
temperature, as well as the daily
changes between daylight and dark, to
produce seeds, it has been shown by
Professor Frits Went. Tomato plants
kept at the temperature of seventy-nine
degrees Fahrenheit night and day grew
and blossomed, but developed no fruit.
Another set of plants with the same
conditions, except for temperature
which was dropped eighteen degrees
during the night, showed better general
growth and gave plenty of fruit.

-♦

'"Phe appearance of Halley's Comet
A each seventy-seven years has been
found in records for each time back to
the appearance just after 400 B. C.

> ■

XTew-born babies can be protected
•^ from whooping cough if their
mothers are vaccinated during the last
three months before the babies are born.

T)aper, cardboard, and cellulose sheet-
ing are substituting for tin. Con-
tainers are of laminated material made
by bonding together different kinds of
substances to give strength and other
qualities such as being leak-proof.

irpHE lack of a certain type of fungus
■*~ growth on their roots frequently
results in the failure of pine, spruce,
and other conifer seedlings when trans-
planted into prairie soil.

TELEFACT

SHORTAGE OF VITAL METALS 1941

AMOUNTS WE CAN PRODUCE

.SHORTAGE

STEEL

COPPER

ZINC

85%

NNNNNNHN1

85%

ALUMINUM

5?%

EACH SYMBOL REPRESENTS 10% OF TOTAL REQUIREMENTS (CIVILIAN & DEFENSE)

SCIENCE SERVICE-PICTOGRAPH CORPORATION 10-25

548

Pjusl&£6u' (DwsrfUnqA, ivl JswilhiiaatrL

By CHARLES E. DIBBLE

Roosevelt Fellow, Institute of International Education

Teotihuacan was a ceremonial
center. Around the principal pyr-
amids and temples were symmet-
rically grouped the habitations of the
many priests, whose duty and responsi-
bility it was to appease and favor the
gods by presiding over the ceremonies
of their intricate cult.

During this year's excavations at
Teotihuacan considerable attention has
been given to what remains of these
priest habitations. A sufficient number
have been excavated to indicate the

characteristic elements of the house
architecture in this ancient city. Build-
ings bordered three sides of a central

patio (A). A porch (B) formed the
entrance to an inner room ( C ) . As a
variant of the standard house plan,
rooms were added at each corner ( D ) .
Entrance to these rooms was by means
of a doorway in each corner. The
patio connected with a larger plaza by
means of the fourth side (E) .

{Concluded on page 593)

#*.V. .*.«.-*-. %V»,r-„ -* *»'

A TEOTIHUACAN CEREMONIAL SCENE—ABOUT
800 A. D.

THE FLOOR PLAN OF A PRIEST'S HOUSE

PREPARE NOW FOR LEADERSHIP

AT THE

Utah State
Agricultural College

Courses Offered in the Following
Schools:

AGRICULTURE

FORESTRY

ARTS AND SCIENCES

COMMERCE

HOME ECONOMICS

EDUCATION

ENGINEERING

INDUSTRIES AND TRADES

New Students Register September 25

Former Students Register September 26

Instruction Begins September 28

Utah State
Agricultural College

Logan, Utah

Write to the President's Office for a Catalogue
or Additional Information

549

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Roice Nelson — On

more than 500 irri-
gated acres near
Cedar City he and
his sons feed out
about 125 cattle
and run about 1500)
sheep a year

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"Some of the heifers in the College feeding trials
have made better gains than ours," Mr. Nelson
told me. (I took above photo at the College.) "At
present we feed our own cattle 10 pounds of rolled
barley plus 30 pounds of corn silage per head per
day — and all the hay they can clean up. Under
this program they gain about 1.6 pounds daily"

'We recently built a killing and cooling plant on
the ranch," Mr. Nelson told me, "and we also pur-
chased a 5-ton refrigerated truck (shown here) to
handle the animals after butchering. No animal
that isn't finished and ready for consumption leaves
our place. Safeway has bought a good deal of my
meat. They demand the best grade but always pay
the going price or better. We figure the Safeway

people have proved
friends"

550

My camera got "a pat on the back" for this Here-
ford picture snapped at Branch Agricultural Col-
lege of Utah at Cedar City. Heifers shown here
are some of those in feeding trials Roice Nelson
tells about. "The College separates the animals
into groups and feeds each group a different
ration," Mr. Nelson explained. "The heifers are
weighed regularly in an effort to discover the
best ration for finishing in southern Utah. After

120 days the cattle are sold
and new trials are then
started with new stock"

In charge of the feeding trials
at the College, in addition to
his other work, is John V.
Christensen, Assistant Pro-
fessor of Animal Husbandry

YOUR SAFEWAY RANCH AND FARM REPORTER

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

A VISIT TO THE SCENE OF

£wdi^. ^anjouUwrL Bapjti&mA.

THE accompanying picture shows
Elders Joseph Fielding Smith of
the Council of the Twelve and
David A. Smith, the latter now presid-
ing in the Canadian Mission, standing,
June 18, 1942, near the stream in which
their grandmother, Mary Fielding
Smith, with other early converts, was
baptized by Elder Parley P. Pratt in
the year 1836. Among these converts
were John Taylor, who became the
third President of the Church, Joseph
Fielding, and Isaac Russell and the two
Fielding girls, Mary and Mercy.

In the spring of 1836, Elder Parley
P. Pratt found himself badly in debt
and his wife seriously ill. A number
of brethren had been called to go on
missions. Elder Pratt hesitated to ac-

Elder Pratt arranged his affairs and
within a few days left for Canada, jour-
neying first to Hamilton. When he ar-
rived there, he was without money and
wondered how he was to reach Toron-
to. He had learned by earlier experi-
ences that in such a position as this he
had one Friend who had never failed
him, so he sought a quiet place and
knelt in prayer. Shortly afterwards a
stranger approached him and inquired
his name and where he was going. Re-
ceiving the information, the gentleman
asked Elder Pratt if he needed any
money, and receiving an affirmative an-
swer, he handed to Brother Pratt ten
dollars and also gave him an introduc-
tion to Mr. John Taylor in Toronto.
Elder Pratt made haste to reach To-

Elder Joseph

Fielding

Smith of

the Council of

the Twelve

(right),

and David A.

Smith (left),

President of

the Canadian

Mission, at

the site of

early Canadian

baptisms.

cept this call because of serious finan-
cial difficulties and the serious illness
of his wife. While pondering ove.r
these things, one evening a knock came
to his door. He arose, opened the door
and admitted Elder Heber C. Kimball
and other elders and the evening was
spent in gospel conversation. Before
the brethren took their departure, Elder
Kimball offered to give Elder Pratt a
blessing, so the visiting brethren laid
their hands upon his head and in the
course of the blessing Elder Kimball
said:

Brother Parley, thy wife shall be healed
from this hour . . . Arise therefore, and go
forth in the ministry, nothing doubting.
Take no thoughts for your debts, nor the
necessaries of life, for the Lord will supply
you with abundant means for all things.
Thou shalt go to Upper Canada, even to
the city of Toronto, the capital, and there
thou shalt find a people prepared for the
fulness of the gospel, and they shall re-
ceive thee, and thou shalt organize the
Church among them, and it shall spread
thence into the regions round about, and
many shall be brought to the knowledge of
the truth and shall be filled with joy, and
from the things growing out of this mis-
sion, shall the fulness of the gospel spread
into England, and cause a great work to
be done in that land.

Taking courage from this blessing,

ronto and immediately went to the home
of John Taylor who received him in
a courteous but rather cold spirit and
showed very little interest in him or his
message. Mr. Taylor was a preacher
for the Methodist Church and had gath-
ered about him a number of persons,
including the Fieldings, who were not
satisfied with the sectarian faiths.

Elder Pratt sought several opportuni-
ties to preach, including the use of the
courthouse, but was in all instances re-
fused. Retiring to a pine grove just
out of the city, he knelt in prayer and
asked the Lord to open the door for
him in Toronto. He then again entered
the city and went to the home of John
Taylor saying that he had come for his
baggage as he was about to depart.
While conversing with Mr. Taylor,
who was busy in his workshop adjoin-
ing the house, a Mrs. Walton entered
the home and visited with Mrs. Taylor.
Upon learning from Mrs. Taylor the
nature of the mission of Elder Pratt,
Mrs. Walton was greatly impressed and
said she felt that the stranger from the
United States had a message for the
people. She thereupon invited Elder
Pratt to come and lodge at her home,
saying she would provide a room where
he could preach. The invitation was
(Continued on page 600)

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551

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OPEN
LETTER

TO A DRIVER WHO DRINKS
AND SPEEDS THROUGH OUR
STREETS.

552

saw you barely miss
a little boy on a tricycle this after-
noon and heard you yell, "Get the

out of the way! Don't you

know any better than to ride in
the street?" He didn't answer be-
cause he hasn't learned to talk
very well yet. So I'm going to
answer for him.

No, the little boy doesn't know
any better than to ride his tricycle
in the street. He has been warned
not to, but little boys don't always
heed warnings. Some adults don't
either, especially traffic warnings;
for example, the one limiting the
speed of automobiles.

I'm going to tell you something
about that little boy. He has a
mother who endured considerable
inconvenience, anxiety, and suf-
fering to bring him into the world.
He has a father who has worked
hard and made many sacrifices to
make him healthy and happy. The
supreme purpose of their lives is
to have their little boy grow up
to be a useful man.

Now stop a minute and think.
If you should kill a child, how
would you feel facing his parents?
What excuse could you give them
for having robbed them of their
dearest possession? More impor-
tant, what excuse could you pos-
sibly offer Him whose kingdom
is made up of little children?

Children, my hasty friend, were
here long before you or your au-
tomobile were thought of. All
the automobiles on earth are not
worth the life of one little boy.
We don't know what that little
boy may some day be. But we
know what you are — and it's un-
important. We could get along
without you, but we can't spare a
single little boy on this street.

Used by permission o/
the "Family Circle"

Illil,

HORTENSE
SPENCER
ANDERSEN

Photograph by H. Armstrong Roberts

PROPHETIC
NCIDENT

(At Washington's
Inaugauration)

ith hand upon the very sacred page
Of holy writ where Jacob blessed his son
Pronouncing Joseph's lasting heritage,
Our country's father had his task begun.
He kissed the page and swore to "preserve, protect,
Defend" the constitution of this land,
That gods here worshiped, men could now select
In utter freedom without reprimand.

Ihis choice of gods to worship, we express
As God intended* when, to Joseph's seed,
He gave the blessing that who would possess
This land of promise must this warning heed:
To worship only Christ, obeying His command;
He'd then protect and bless this Promised Land.

553

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

Maybe^m Have a Cinderella, too

Who's this? . . . Not that drab little thing who's never

been dated. Not 'Droopy', the one that always looked

like a fugitive from a washtub. Say . . . she's smooth!

• • •

It's sad to see a gay, young spirit, stifled by dingy, half- washed
dresses. But not serious. Nothing a bar of Fels-Naptha Soap
can't cure.

Keeping a school girl's varied wardrobe thoroughly clean is
no job for ordinary soap. Party dresses to wash gently. Grime
to get out of rough and tumble things. Gay colors to keep
clear and bright. And sweaters — oodles of them every week!
To this complicated washing job Fels-Naptha Soap brings two
extraordinary cleaners. Gentle, active naptha and richer, golden
soap. These two get dirt out — all of it — with little rubbing
and no rough handling. Quickly, too — and that's important.
Probably your own disposition will keep pace with daughter's
'oomph' rating, if you start using Fels-Naptha Soap — now.

Golden bar or Golden chips
Fels-Naptha

banishes TattleTale Gray

554

ELDER STEPHEN L RICHARDS
OFFERS

STEPHEN L RICHARDS

"Plder Stephen L Richards of the
■L"/ Council of the Twelve offered the
opening prayer in the United States
Senate, Washington, D. C, June 29.

Elder Richards was invited to offer
the prayer by Vice President Henry
A. Wallace, who extended the invita-
tion at the suggestion of Utah's senator,
Elbert D. Thomas.

The prayer offered follows in full:

We bow before Thee, our Heavenly Fa-
ther, in humble prayer. We thank Thee
for the manifold blessings Thou hast be-
stowed upon us, in this our beloved country.
Our hearts are filled with gratitude for the
sacred institutions of America which are
founded in Christian virtue and righteous-
ness.

O God, preserve these inspired concepts
and establishments in the earth. Let not the
adversary of light and truth destroy free-
dom, and worship, and divine faith. Bless
all those, the world over, who give them-
selves to the cause of liberty. May they
be conscious of the fact that it is Thy
cause, subserving the noble lineage, the
free agency, the dignity and the majesty
of man.

Remember, O Lord, those who bear arms
to sustain these holy causes of freedom and
Christ. Make them potent. In Thy mercy
preserve their lives and their virtue, and
may they have the comfort to know that
their service has Thine approval.

Bless the homes from which they come.
Let Thy spirit bring consolation and forti-
tude to aching and anxious hearts, and as-
suage the sorrow of those bereaved.

Unite the people, Father, in purpose and
effort, and in prayerful solicitude for the
common good. May pride and arrogance
and self-sufficiency give place to true hu-
mility that recognizes Thy sovereignty and
the dependence of all on Thy providential
care. Forgive our errors and our weaknesses.
Help us turn from wrong and unprofitable
ways, that we may more closely approach
Thee in the hour of our need.

Bless those who direct the nation. May
they truly be Thy servants, as they serve
the people and the great cause. Inspire the
minds and the hearts of the lawmakers. May
vision and great wisdom be their portion.
Remember him, oh, Father, who bears the
responsibility of leadership — our President.

Uphold his hands. Endow him with
great gifts — gifts of the spirit, to see the
way and the light and to follow the course
Thou dost direct.

We pray for the early triumph of right-
eousness and truth. We pray for peace,
founded in the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. All this we do humbly
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Ssuni&nxjL Ssuwwfidu

By PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT

[ WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT LEARNING IS SPLENDID, BUT TO DO IS
THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS WITH THE LORD, AND I WANT YOU
TO DO ALL YOU CAN IN THE CHURCH.

O MAN IS ENTITLED TO BE A LEADER WHO CANNOT RISE ABOVE SELF-
INTEREST.

The longer I live the more I see that money
is of no value unless with it we can have a
love of the gospel and a sincere desire to
work for the advancement of God's work on the

earth.

* * *

There is one thing that sustains me, and that is
the fact that all powers of mind and body come from
God and that He is perfectly able and willing to
qualify me for His work provided I am faithful in

doing my duty.

* * *

I can say today that there is nothing I want so
much as to do my duty in the Church and if
money will aid me in doing that, then I want it; and
if it shall in the slightest degree retard my advance-
ment in that direction then I hope for failure instead

of success.

* * *

There is nothing on this earth that brings so
much satisfaction and comfort as the knowledge
that we are in the line of our duty, no matter how
hard the duty may be.

* * *

I want you to remember that learning is splendid,
but to do is the only thing that counts with the
Lord, and I want you to do all you can in the

Church.

* * *

There is no true happiness in this life or the life
to come if you think only of yourself and of your

own comfort.

* * *

I always feel that it is the proper thing to have
the best house in the ward the one we worship the

Lord in.

* * *

Too many people are as liberal as liberal can be
with Church or other money that is not their own,
and for which they do not have to work — but hit
their own pocket, and O, what a difference!

Death is a great sorrow, but there are others
which are far greater, and to those of us who have
an abiding faith in the eternity of the life to come,
death has lost its terror.

We generally have better saints when the devil

is barking.

* * *

The Lord is the best friend I have ever had, and
I think you cannot do better than to trust Him and
He will reward you for all that you do.

* * •

With the things of the world the more we get
the more we want, but with the gospel the more we
learn the more we love our fellows and wish to

divide with them.

* * *

No man is entitled to be a leader who cannot
rise above self-interest.

* * *

I feel that there is no honor on this earth that is
so great as to be called to work for the Lord;
that is beyond money and beyond price.

* * *

There are many of the poor and humble among
the Latter-day Saints who are not thought much
of today, but who will stand exceedingly high
with the Lord on the great day of judgment.

* * •

I want every young man in the Church, and out
of it, for that matter, to learn the lesson that riches
are not a good thing unless wisdom shall go hand

in hand with them.

* * *

It is in the days of adversity that individuals and
nations have developed.

* * *

I feel that poverty, with the blessings of the Lord,
is better than wealth without His blessings.

555

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... , FARMER

By
Dr. JOHN A. WIDTSOE

of the Council of the Twelve

AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE CHURCH

THIS TEACHER, LAWYER, AND

STATESMAN TILLS THE LAND

WHICH NURTURED THE YEARS OF

HIS YOUTH.

OATS IN THE SHOCK WITH GIANT ROW OF LOM-
BARDI POPLARS IN BACKGROUND. HEAVY
CROPS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE STRONG CLAY
LOAM SOIL OF THIS GRANTVILLE LAND.

THE pursuit of agriculture has
always been held in high re-
spect by the Latter-day
Saints. That is well, for economic
and spiritual stability accompanies
the wise tilling of the soil.

In this day of confusion, members
of the Church should resist the temp-
tation to part with their farms. A
farm is as an inheritance from the
Lord; an island of safety in a trou-
bled sea. As never before, our farms
should be tilled with care; in fuller
harmony with advancing agricultural
knowledge. And all who love farm
life might do well, in anticipation of
future events, to invest their savings
in land.

So runs the teaching of the leader-
ship of the Church.

One of the foremost of those who
have taken these thoughts to heart
is J. Reuben Clark, Jr., first coun-
selor in the Presidency of the
Church. The savings of a life unusu-
ally crowded with professional and
official duties have been used in ac-
quiring and developing a farm.
Stocks and bonds have passed him
by. The material results of his life's
labors are in the land.

This is an example for the Church
to heed. In times of economic stress
the farmer's acres will at least pro-
duce food for the family — therein
lies fundamental security. To suc-
ceed upon the land, the farmer must
obey the laws of nature carefully, in
plowing, sowing, irrigating, harvest-
ing, and maintaining soil fertility —
that tends to make him a law-abiding
citizen, a safe bulwark of the state.
556

Photos bit Don H. Smith

He must battle enemies in the form
of insect and disease, and, after har-
vest, the fluctuations of the market —
this calls into action his every faculty
and develops his strength. The far-
mer deals with the soil below and
the heavens above; he senses the op-
eration of eternal forces — this makes
him a worshipful man. The Church
has ever been grateful that the ma-

IN GRANTSVILLE
IS THE NOW ABAN-
DONED ONE-ROOM
ADOBE SCHOOL
BUILDING WHERE
PRESIDENT CLARK
FIRST ATTENDED
SCHOOL. PLANS

ARE UNDER WAY
BY THE PEOPLE OF
GRANTSVILLE TO
RECONDITION THIS
STRUCTURE AS A
PIONEER LAND-
MARK AND MUSE-
UM.

jority of its members have been hus-
bandmen, or tillers of the soil.

President Clark's faith in the in-
spiration which led the Church into
the valleys of the West is perhaps a
greater example to the people. The
lands that he — teacher, lawyer, and
statesman, with a worldwide view —
chose to buy and to develop are in
Grantsville, Utah, in the heart of the

SHOWING ONE OF THE FLOWING
(ARTESIAN) WELLS ON THE CLARK
FARM WHICH ANALYZES AS BEING
PURE, AND WHICH FLOWS 240
GALLONS PER MINUTE. PRES-
IDENT CLARK IS SHOWN OPERAT-
ING THE VALVE WHICH REGU-
LATES THE FLOW FROM THE
LARGE PIPE.

PRESIDENT CLARK
ASTRIDE ONE OF
HIS SADDLE
HORSES.

A YOUNG BLACK
WALNUT TREE IS
SEEN AT THE LEFT
AND IS ONE OF
MANY PLANTED
ALONG THE FENCE
LINES. TO THE
WEST AND IN THE
BACKGROUND MAY
BE SEEN PART OF
THE STANSBURY
RANGE OF MOUN-
TAINS.

empire that the Latter-day Saints
wrested from the desert. There he
was reared; there his father won a
subsistence for his family. He had
the faith to carry on the work of the
pioneers. The village is small, the
water supply limited, but upon such
places and upon such faith the
Church has been built into prosper-
ity. Too many undervalue their in-
heritances from the fathers who
founded the intermountain West. It
is active faith in existing resources,
the constant, proper use of them by
man himself, wherever upon earth,
that brings success. And it was not
by chance that Brigham Young set-
tled the people near the shores of the
Great Salt Lake! So runs the faith
of Brother Clark, who now tills the
land within sight of the old adobe
schoolhouse where early lessons
were learned, within sight of the
scenes that enriched his childhood
and youth with the fundamentals
which have yielded the strength and
leadership of his later life. Nor is
the relationship of President Clark
to his farm one of mere ownership
and remote interest. He personally
supervises its every operation, and
such time as can be spared from his
heavy administrative duties he gives
to working the soil and performing
the other labors essential to making
the earth yield.

'"The lands of the Clark farm were
acquired gradually as means and

quiring a minimum of demand upon
outside sources. The home farm of
sixty acres, dating back to pioneer
days, of fertile soil and ample water
supply, produces garden stuff, sugar
beets, hay, and other crops needing
irrigation. On this farm, also, are
the dwelling house, outbuildings,
barns, etc.; and there the horses,
cows, and pigs are kept. In the val-
ley eastward is a turkey ranch,
equipped for raising five thousand
turkeys, with a neighboring farm of
five hundred thirteen acres— two
hundred dry farmed and sixty irri-
gated— which supplies a good part
of the feed for the turkeys. An early
grist mill with much modern machin-
ery stands there. On the foothills
to the west, ten hundred eighty-six
acres of sagebrush land belong to
the enterprise. The rolling, rocky
part is used for grazing. The level
acres are being cleared for dry farm-
ing. This season fifteen acres were
planted there to Michael grass,
and the yield was very good. The
field of ripened grass, in the midst
of the sagebrush was not only beau-
tiful to the eye, but a lesson to be fol-
lowed by others, who, ignoring pos-
sibilities when proper methods are
followed allow large land areas to re-
main unproductive. Grazing rights,
as usual, in the neighboring moun-
tains make possible summer pasture
for sixty-five head of cattle. Back
in the valley, again, north and east

opportunity permitted. They form of the home farm, towards the Great
together a self-contained umt, re- (Continued on page 605

PRESIDENT CLARK
MAKING FRIENDS
WITH TWO OF THE
COLTS RAISED ON
HIS FARM.

"- ■■'":'' -:.-:-- "'■;;:;:'■::;:..:.

LOOKING NORTH-
EAST FROM THE
DRY LAND FARM
ROAD. GRANTS-
VILLE STRETCHES
ACROSS THE PIC-
TURE AND IS
MARKED BY A
LINE OF TREES.
THE GREAT SALT
LAKE IS SEEN
ALONG THE HORI-
ZON.

557

**■ GOSPEL TENT CAMPAIGN

By CHARLES A. CALLIS

Of the Council o[ the Twelve

The Gospel Tent,
19 13, Elder
W. P. Whitaker,
seated in center,
now president of
the Southern

States Mission.

IN bygone days in Dixieland the
gospel was preached by old-
fashioned methods. The elders
labored exclusively in the country
districts, traveling without purse or
scrip, eating and drinking whatso-
ever things were set before them and
asking no questions. The hospitable
people of the South believed that the
laborer was worthy of his food.

It was a different story, however,
when the missionaries attempted to
proselyte in the cities and, according
to instructions, sought entertainment
therein; they were arrested on the
charge of vagrancy and thrown into
prison. Thereafter to avoid this
treatment the brethren in one or two
cities were advised to secure lodg-
ings and provide their own food.
Men who read Mormonism with
their prejudices, and not with their
eyes, prevented the renting of public
halls in which to hold meetings. Thus
the door to extensive city missionary
work seemed to be locked.

It was evident that something new
must be done to form acquaintance
with men in the cities. After careful
consideration a gospel tent was pur-
chased. It had a seating capacity
of two hundred. When the sides
were lifted, as they usually were, be-
cause the weather was warm, the
space was increased considerably.
The seats, in the main, were rough
planks resting upon a prop at either
end. People came to the meetings
expecting to have to sit on hard seats
and they were not disappointed. A
raised platform in one end of the
enclosure was built for the speaker
to stand upon. Four stalwart and
experienced elders were in charge
of this portable tabernacle. In a
558

suitable place easily reached, in the
shade of the oak and the magnolia
trees, these earnest preachers pitched
their tent.

From the beginning, the venture
was a pronounced success. The
purpose of the gospel tent campaign
was to form a nucleus of a branch

organization in a number of south-
ern cities. A tour of the mission
as far as Key West, Florida, was
made with this temporary place of
worship. Several of the powerful
city branches owe their existence to
this unique but effective method of
preaching the gospel.

During the day the elders would
tract in the city and invite the people
to the services which were held every
evening. Crowds flocked to the
meetings to hear the gospel for the
first time. Many "who came to
scoff remained to pray." The tent
was the talk of the town. Conver-
sions and baptisms were numerous.
Sunday School was held each Sab-
bath morning; Mutual Improvement,
on Tuesday night. Lantern slides
furnished visual information con-
cerning the Church.

HThe tent services were held in a
city from ten days to two weeks,
then resumed in another city for a
similar period. Two missionaries
were appointed, after the tent was
moved, to cultivate the ground thus
broken.

Kindly disposed southerners,
members and non-members, brought
food for the preachers. This was
the usual menu: Corn bread, turnip
greens, grits and grease, sweet po-
tatoes, goat meat, beef, pork, yellow-
legged chicken, clabber milk, and
thickly frosted cakes such as only
southern women can make. Ah, a
sigh escapes, and the mouth waters
when fond recollection reminds us
of those good southern dinners.

One summer evening, in the deep-
ening twilight, just before the meet-
ing began, a beautiful mocking bird,
in a nearby tree, serenaded the con-
gregation. The remarkable songster
{Concluded on page 601)

Above: Brother
and Sister
Charles A. Callis
going to a con-
ference in the
Kentucky hills.

Right: Elders
Callis and Lowry
on their way to
attend a confer-
ence in the Mis-
sissippi Delta,
1908.

, t struck unexpectedly,
this illuminating and disturbing
truth. Jim was leaning back in his
chair, relaxed, laughing, joking, en-
joying the card party immensely. An
ominous shadow of something very
real had crossed his mind, not real
here in this room but real in the fu-
ture, a future so close that already
the gloom of this trouble was spread-
ing over him.

He was looking over his cards at
Jane, the girl he loved and was going
to marry. She, too, had a handful
of cards, but in her other hand she
held a cigaret. The smoke curled
upward in a waving blue line. Their
host's young son, Tommy, was
reaching for it with questioning,
wondering eyes, but Jane was hold-
ing it high out of his reach as she
kindly restrained him. "Naughty,
naughty, Tommy. You'll burn your
paddies."

Jim was momentarily out of this
comfortable living room. He was in
his own living room. Tommy was
his own son; Jane was his wife — the
mother of his child. She was hold-
ing a cigaret high out of Tommy's
reach. Jim reflected forebodingly.
She couldn't always hold her cigar-
et out of Tommy's reach. Jim's own
conscience flooded him with a sense
of guilt; he too smoked.

He'd have to think this thing out.
Smoking was a harmful, wasteful
habit — that, he had always admitted
to himself. But he had never thought
he was committing any great wrong
when he did it, although he had al-

Conflict

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By JACK BENNETT

ways been aware of its effect on his
body, a slight loss of appetite, a gid-
dy, drugged feeling, but had never
felt concerned about it. He'd always
told himself that he'd watch it, not
smoke too heavily, stop for awhile
if necessary. In Jane he'd somehow
accepted it without question, looking
upon it as her own personal right.

Now, he wondered why all these
thoughts and questions were sudden-
ly forcing his attention. Maybe it
was the nearness of their marriage,
or the clarity of this little scene be-
fore him; maybe it was his first feel-
ing of fatherly responsibility, or a
voice from somewhere demanding
him to produce only the most fit and
beautiful life in human form. Per-
haps it was one or all of these things,
but Jim knew that a reaction was
going on inside him that would alter
him and his surroundings.

Strange reflections to have at a
party. But he knew that he was
going to bring this problem to Jane;
he knew he was going to stop smok-
ing now, tonight.

im found himself awake at
two o'clock in the morning. Every
fiber of his body was crying out for
a cigaret. Lying there, looking
through the darkness at the dim de-
sign of the wall paper of his room,
he began to realize what a slave he
had made of himself. He felt his
fists clenched at his sides, his body
tense. Sleep could never come to
him like this. He rolled over on his
side.

Just one cigaret, just one to relieve
him tonight so that he could sleep,
and then he'd clamp down on him-
self. But no, agonizing truth hung
like a fog over his mind. This was
something he could conquer only by
stopping now, to put it off was to fall
back. He must be as ruthless and
as absolute in his resistance as his
foe was in its aggressiveness. To
clean this up between Jane and him-

self, he would first have to win over
it himself.

Why had he ever allowed this
thing so completely to enslave him?
If only he could sleep. Maybe a
walk around the block would relax
him. He dressed and went out.

LJays merged into weeks.
Jim could feel victory coming to him
— but so agonizingly slow.

His greatest obstacle he was yet
to meet. Jane had questioned his
refusal of cigarets, but he had always
brushed the point aside with the re-
mark that he was smoking too much
lately or that he'd just had one. In
every instance when he wanted to
approach her on the matter, the fear
of her reaction stopped him. Each
time he had felt the cold fear that
this question might come between
them, that all they had planned
would be dashed on the rocks of this
one point of difference. He felt he
must wait until he had the strength
of his own victory over it to help him
persuade her.

Three months had passed now
since that evening at Tommy's. Jim
could hear Jane's humming above
the clatter of dishes. They had had
dinner together. Jane had enjoyed
these dinners, but Jim had always
protested that after a day in the big
department store she shouldn't fuss
with cooking. However, she had in-
sisted that it wasn't really work but
a sort of relaxation. Here he was,
pushed out of the kitchen and told
to read the paper because he was
(Continued on page 584)

559

LELAND STANFORD DRIVING THE GOLDEN SPIKE

PROMONTORY

N June 11, 1942, the
Interstate Commerce Commission
granted permission to the Southern
Pacific Railroad to abandon the
Promontory branch, one hundred
twenty-three miles of track between
Corinne and Lucin, Utah. Many
read this news with a twinge of re-
gret, because it was here, at Prom-
ontory, May 10, 1869, that Utah
played host at the completion of the
first transcontinental railroad.

Among the early acts passed by
the first session of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Utah,
in 1851-52, were several asking
Congress to connect Great Salt Lake
City with the frontier settlements in
the East and with a seaport on the
Pacific coast by an overland tele-
graph line, by a transcontinental
highway, by a "national central rail-
road," and by a semi-monthly mail.

Prior to 1860, eighteen state leg-
islatures had passed resolutions in
favor of a transcontinental railroad.
Both the Democratic and the Repub-
lican party platforms of 1856 and
1 860 favored appropriate legislation
on the subject.

The Union Pacific, which had
been created by the Pacific Railroad
Act of 1862, began operations Janu-
ary 8, 1863. The Central Pacific
Company, a California organization
created in 1861, began its part of
the project in December, 1863. Both
companies had the assistance of the
government.

Of course every citizen of Great
Salt Lake City, Mormon and gen-
tile, believed that the railroad should
come through that city, and swing
around the southern end of Great
Salt Lake to the Pacific coast. How-
ever, it was proved that the northern
route around the lake was shorter,
had a better supply of timber, less
560

By ALBERT L ZOBELL, JR.

desert, and was more favorable for
a possible branch line to Idaho and
Oregon. The Utah Central Rail-
road was therefore planned to con-
nect Utah's capital with the trans-
continental line.

President Brigham Young re-
ceived a contract from the Union
Pacific for the grading of a ninety-
mile strip from the head of Echo
Canyon to the mouth of Weber Can-
yon, for $2,125,000. The principal
sub-contractors under President
Young were Joseph A. Young, his
eldest son, and John Sharp. To
these sub-contractors fell the heavy
work of building the bridge ap-
proaches and the cutting of the tun-
nels in Weber Canyon.

The only contract taken by the
Mormons from the Central Pacific
was that of Benson, Farr, and West,
who undertook the construction
work from the vicinity of Humbolt
Wells, Nevada, to Ogden. Although
the Central Pacific never reached
Ogden, the contract was honored
for work done.

The Union Pacific arrived in Og-
den March 8, 1869, amid a great
celebration, and pushed on toward
the west.

Promontory was the place, and
Monday, May 10, 1869, was the
date finally selected for the cele-
bration of the completion of the un-
dertaking.

The Central Pacific regular pas-
senger train left Sacramento at six
o'clock on the morning of May 6,
with a large party of excursionists.
It was closely followed by Governor
Leland Stanford's special, with Chief

Justice Sanderson, Governor Saf-
ford of Arizona, and other distin-
guished passengers'. The California
delegation were the first of the vis-
itors to arrive on the scene.

pARLY on the morning of May 10,
the Union Pacific special ar-
rived, carrying the eastern officers
of the Union Pacific and four com-
panies of the Twenty-first Infantry
from Camp (now Fort) Douglas,
Great Salt Lake City. A second
train from the West arrived, bring-
ing more sightseers, and another
from Ogden loaded chiefly with
Utahns accompanied by the Tenth
Ward Band of Salt Lake City,
dressed in new uniforms and
equipped with new instruments
which had been purchased in Lon-
don at a cost of twelve hundred dol-
lars.

The number of spectators at the
driving of the golden spike has been
variously estimated at between six
hundred and three thousand. It is
probable that about fifteen hundred
persons were present, including the
military and construction forces.

Neither President Brigham
Young nor the governor of Utah
was present at Promontory. They
were represented by the Honorable
William Jennings, vice president of
the Utah Central Railroad Com-
pany, Bishop John Sharp, and Col-
onel Charles R. Savage. Colonel
Savage made the photographic rec-
ord of the day. Ogden was repre-
sented by Mayor Farr, Elder Frank-
lin D. Richards of the Council of
the Twelve, and Bishop C. W.
West.

A special telegrapher's kit had

been set up on a small table beside

the remaining gap in the track, where

{Continued on page 602)

TEN DAYS LATER TWO
HORSEMEN WERE RIDING
UP TO THE SAME LAD. NO
USE FOR HIM TO TRY TO
GET AWAY FOR THEY
WOULD SOON CATCH HIM.

A SHORT
SHORT
STORY

JLhi

.he boy sat on his
horse, proud as a king. A slim
man, riding towards him, on a very
tired horse, stopped and said, "Hello,
kid, what you doing?"
"Herding cattle."
"Alone?"
'"Yep."

The man got off his horse, walked
around the one the boy was riding
and said, "Whose horse you ridin?"
rie s mine.
"You should ort to be in school an'
learn to talk right. Should say 'he
was mine,' for I'm a takin' him."
* * *

Ten days later two horsemen were
riding up to the same lad. No use
for him to try to get away for they
would soon catch him. As they rode
up, the lad noticed one of the riders
was rather stockily-built and was
smiling. This one said, "Kind of
lonesome out here alone, ain't it?"

"I don't mind it," replied the boy.

"Well, I should think your boss
would give you a little better horse
to ride, for if one of those wild steers
took after you he'd mighty soon
make short work of you. Take my
advice and get a better one."

"Had a good one but that man
with you stole him from me."

"You're a liar," challenged the
second man. "Never saw you be-
fore. Come on, let's be moving be-
fore I lose my temper." But the
stockily-built rider replied:

"Might be a good story to listen
to. Let's get off and see what the
boy has to say." He dismounted as
did the boy, but the other rider sat
in the saddle. Slowly his hand
dropped to the butt of a revolver.

"Say, Slim, you might lose your

temper and get into trouble; I'll just
borrow your gun while we talk." The
heavy-set man had his gun on the
man in the saddle as he reached up,
undid the belt and tossed the gun,
scabbard, and belt full of cartridges
on the ground, saying, "Might as
well get off and be sociable." There
was no smile on his face now. The
man got off and sat down.

"Now, lad, you say this man stole
your horse. When was that?"

t *nrr i it

len days ago.

"What did your horse look like?"

"That's him, the one this man was
riding."

There was silence for some time
and then, "Just how did it happen?
Tell me all about it and don't be
afraid. I'll protect you."

"I was sitting on that hill over
there when this man came riding up
on a tired horse. He asked if I was
alone and whose horse I was riding
and when I said it was my horse he
knocked me down and kicked the.
wind out of me. Then he changed
saddles and mounted my horse and
rode away, leading his horse."

"Then what did you do?" asked
the stocky man.

"I waited till night, watching the
cattle, and then I went to the ranch
to tell the boss about it."

"How far is it to the ranch?"

"Twenty miles."

"Did you walk?"

"No. I ran most of the way, for
I wanted to get back by morning
with another horse. He let me take
this outfit," pointing to the horse he
was riding when the men rode up.

Ihere was silence for
considerable time and then - —
"Where did you get your horse and
saddle?"

"Bought the horse from the boss
for $50.00 and the saddle from the

WALKING,
for HEALTH

By JAMES P. SHARP

storekeeper for $40.00. Paid for
them in cash."

"Now, Slim, I believe you said
you bought this outfit from a Mex,
down country. Is that right?"

"Every word of it is true. This
kid just is a-trying to make out he
lost a horse so to get you to give him
one. Let's be riding."

"No hurry as I can see. Now, lad,
was there any mark on your saddle
that you can identify it by?"

"I cut my initials in the leather
on the bottom of my stirrups."

Slowly the man arose, walked
over and examined the stirrups, and
said, "The horse, how do I know he
is yours?"

The lad walked over in front of
the animal, snapped his fingers a few
times and said, "Morning, Trav-
eler." The horse, as if awakened
from a sleep, looked at the lad, raised
its head up and down a few times,
and then lifted its right front foot
up to the boy's outstretched hand.

Again there was silence which was
broken by, "Lad, it appears Slim
owes you something for the use of
your horse for ten days. He'll be
only too glad to give this gun, scab-
bard, belt, and bullets and call it
square. You might need it to pro-
tect yourself from other snakes." He
strapped the belt around the boy's
waist, turned to the other man and
said, "Slim, the 'Wild Bunch' has
no use for a man who mistreats la-
dies or children, especially boys. If
I ever hear of you being seen around
this country after tonight then
there'll be a funeral and you won't
be looking at the corpse. Get walk-
ing."

"Which way — " began Slim.

"Take your pick. It's all open
range, but get going."

The two sat there for some time
as the man grew smaller in the dis-
tance. Then, "Say, why not kt him
ride old Napoleon down to the ranch.
He could leave him there and tell
the boss I got my outfit back," said
the lad.

"No. He needs considerable
walking. It's healthy exercise."

"I never saw you before. What
is your name?" queried the boy.

"My name? People call me 'Butch
Cassidy.' "

561

JhsL SiansJiiL. oL Bul

STITUTION

N a wall in the na-
tion's Capitol, Washington, work-
men, in September, 1941, hoisted a
massive oil painting into place. Mea-
suring thirty by twenty feet— about
twice the size of an ordinary bill-
board sign! — it cost thirty thousand
dollars. It is Howard Chandler
Christy's "The Signing of the Con-
stitution of the United States."

Christy portrays the thirty-nine
original signers of the Constitution

By WENDELL J. ASHTON

Genera/ Secretary , Deseret Sunday School Union

as they affixed their names to the
document in the upper room of the
State House in Philadelphia, Sep-
tember 17, 1787. George Washing-
ton, presiding, stands on an elevated
platform beside his large, carved,
high-backed chair. Seated immedi-
ately in front of him is Benjamin
Franklin, oldest delegate, in his
eighty-second year. His long hair
flows over his shoulders. Generally,

however, it is a group of young men.
Their average age is but forty-five.
The youngest, Jonathan Dayton, a
New Jersey attorney, is twenty-six.
It is a solemn but colorful gather-
ing. Powdered wigs, knee breeches,
buckles, and jabots prevail. Repre-
sented among these signers are nine-
teen lawyers, six merchants, four
statesmen, two financiers, two physi-
cians, and one each of the following:

ORIGINAL SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

Nami

Birth Date

Birthplace

State Age At

Representing Convention

Death Date Occupation

George Washington

Feb. 22, 1732

Popes Creek, Va.

Virginia

Dec. 14, 1799

Farmer

John Langdon

June 26, 1741

Portsmouth, N. H.

New Hamp.

Sept. 18, 1819

Merchant

Nicholas Gilman

Aug. 3, 1755

Exeter, N. H.

New Hamp.

May 2, 1814

Statesman"

Nathaniel Gorham

May, 1738

Charleston, Mass.

Mass.

June 11, 1796

Merchant

Rufus King

March 24, 1755

Scarboro, Maine

(then part of Mass.)

Mass.

April 29, 1827

Lawyer

William Samuel Johnson

Oct. 7, 1727

Stratford, Conn.

Conn.

Nov. 14, 1819

Lawyer

Roger Sherman

April 19, 1721

Newton, Mass.

Conn.

July 23, 1793

Merchant

Alexander Hamilton

Jan. 11, 1757

Island of Nevis, West Indies

New York

July 12, 1804

Lawyer

William Livingston

Nov., 1723

Albany, N. Y.

New Jersey

July 25, 1790

Lawyer

David Brearly

June 11, 1745

Spring Grove, N. J.

New Jersey

Aug. 16, 1790

Lawyer

William Paterson

Dec. 24, 1745

County Antrim, Ireland

New Jersey

Sept. 6, 1806

Lawyer

Jonathan Dayton

Oct. 16, 1760

Elizabethtown, N. J.

New Jersey

Oct. 9, 1824

Lawyer

Benjamin Franklin

Jan. 6, 1706

Boston, Mass.

Pa.

April 17, 1790

Publisher

Thomas Mifflin

Jan. 10, 1744

Philadelphia, Pa.

Pa.

Jan. 20, 1800

Merchant

Robert Morris

Jan. 31, 1734

Near Liverpool, Eng.

Pa.

May 8, 1506

Financier

George Clymer

March 16, 1739

Philadelphia, Pa.

Pa.

Jan. 24, 1813

Merchant

Thomas Fitzsimons

1741

Ireland

Pa.

Aug. 26, 1811

Merchant

Jared Ingersoll

Oct. 27, 1749

New Haven, Conn.

Pa.

Oct. 31, 1822

Lawyer

Gouverneur Morris

Jan. 31, 1752

Morrisania,New York

Pa.

Nov. 6, 1816

Lawyer

James Wilson

Sept. 14, 1742

Carskerdo, Scotland

Pa.

Aug. 21, 1798

Lawyer

George Read

Sept. 18, 1733

North East, Maryland

Delaware

Sept. 21, 1798

Lawyer

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

1747

Philadelphia, Pa.

Delaware

March 30, 1812

Lawyer

John Dickinson

Nov. 8, 1732

Talbot County, Maryland

Delaware

Feb. 14, 1808

Lawyer

Jacob Broom

1752

Wilmington, New Castle
Co., Delaware

Delaware

April 25, 1810

Statesman

Richard Bassett

April 2, 1745

Cecil County, Maryland

Delaware

Sept. 15, 1815

Statesman

James McHenry

Nov. 16, 1753

Ballymena, Ireland

Maryland

May 3, 1816

Physician

Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer

1723

Charles County, Maryland

Maryland

Nov. 16, 1790

Financier

Daniel Carroll

July 22, 1730

Upper Marlboro, Maryland

Maryland

May 7, 1796

Land Owner

John Blair

1732

Williamsburg, Va.

Virginia

Aug. 31, 1800

Lawyer

James Madison, Jr.

March 16, 1751

Port Conway, Va.

Virginia

Tune 28, 1836

Lawyer

William Blount

March 26, 1749

Bertie County, N. C.

N. Carolina

March 21, 1800

Realtor

Richard Dobbs Spaight

March 25, 1758

New Bern, N. C.

N. Carolina

Sept. 6, 1802

Statesman

Hugh Williamson

Oct. 5, 1735

West Nottingham, Pa.

N. Carolina

May 22, 1819

Physician

John Rutledge

Sept., 1739

Charleston, S. C.

S. Carolina

July 18, 1800

Lawyer

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Feb. 25, 1746

Charleston, S. C.

S. Carolina

Aug. 16, 1825

Lawyer

Charles Pinckney

1758

Charleston, S. C.

S. Carolina

Oct. 29, 1824

Lawyer

Pierce Butler

July 11, 1744

County Carlow, Ireland

S. Carolina

Feb. 15, 1822

Planter

William Few

June 8, 1748

Baltimore, Maryland

Georgia

July 16, 1828

Banker

Abraham Baldwin
562

Nov. 6, 1754

Guilford, Conn.

Georgia

1807

Lawyer

publisher, farmer, landowner, real-
tor, planter, and banker.

Thomas Jefferson, in France at
the time, referred to this group as
"an assembly of demigods,"1 and
William E. Gladstone, the British
Prime Minister, characterized their
finished product as "the most won-
derful work ever struck off at a given
time by the brain and purpose of
man.

In the holy writ of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
however, an even deeper significance
is given to the Constitution and its
framers. The Lord has said: "... I
established the Constitution of this
land, by the hands of wise men whom
I raised up unto this very purpose,
and redeemed the land by the shed-
ding of blood."3 Joseph Smith, who
received this revelation at Kirtland,
Ohio, December 16, 1833, wrote on
another occasion, "... the Constitu-
tion of the United States is a glorious
standard; it is founded in the wisdom
of God. It is a heavenly banner; it
is to all those who are privileged with
the sweets of liberty, like the cooling
shades and refreshing waters of a
great rock in a thirsty and weary

1M. Farrand, The Fathers of the Constitution,
Chronicles of America Series, p. 109.

2Gladstone, in North American Review, CXXVII,
p. 185.

3Doctrine and Covenants 101:80.

land. It is like a great tree under
whose branches men from every
clime can be shielded from the burn-
ing rays of the sun."4

HpHAT the framers of the Constitu-
tion formed an assemblage of
great men no student of history can
doubt. Three-fourths of the dele-
gates had served in Congress. But
in the Mormon way of thinking,
these pillars of government were
more than intellectual giants; they,
in the words of Brigham Young,
"were inspired from on high to do
that work."5

To delve into the lives of these
patriots reveals an abundance of
strong religious conviction. Take,
for instance, George Washington,
president of the Constitutional Con-
vention and "father" of this country.
As a boy, George wrote this motto
in his notebook: "Labor to keep alive
in your breast that little spark of ce-
lestial fire, conscience." He was a
regular attender at his church, tak-
ing an active part in his parishes at
Alexandria and Pohick.

But Washington's deep-rooted
faith branched out beyond chapel
walls. Winthrop, the historian, tells

*Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
p. 147.

^Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, pp. 9-15.

PHOTOGRAPH BY HORYDCZAK OF THE
PAINTING "SIGNING THE CONSTITU-
TION OF THE UNITED STATES" BY
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY.

us, "It is an interesting tradition that,
during the prayers with which Dr.
Duche opened that meeting [the
First Continental Congress] at Car-
penter's Hall on September 5, 1774,
while most of the delegates were
standing, Washington was kneel-
ing.

Washington's true humility shone
out when Lewis Nicola, a colonel in
his army, apprised him of a move-
ment afoot, after the war, to make
the general their king. "Banish
these thoughts from your mind, and
never communicate, from yourself
or anyone else, a sentiment of a like
nature,"7 was the fiery reply.

Two days after he had received
a proclamation from Congress an-
nouncing the cessation of hostilities
with Britain, Washington ordered
the army chaplains to "render thanks
to Almighty God."8

Again, in his inaugural address,
Washington's thoughts rose heaven-
ward: "It would be peculiarly im-
proper to omit in this first official
act, my fervent supplication to that
(Continued on page 598)

eRobert C. Winthrop, Presidents of the United
States, edited by J. G. Wilson, p. 19.
'•Ibid, p. 25.
sIbid, p. 27.

563

EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS

of BRIGHAM YOUNG

To His Wife HARRIET COOK

HARRIET ELIZABETH COOK (CAMP-
BELL) YOUNG

With the passing years, new
facets of greatness appear
to add lustre to the revered
name of Brigham Young. Through
unpublished letters which are now
being brought to the attention of
this generation, the tenderness with
which Brigham Young regarded his
family and his acquaintances is evi-
denced. Even in the trials of his
westward march with the advance
company of the Pioneers, he took
time to write words of encourage-
ment, advice, and affection to those
whom he left behind.

The letters published in this ar-
ticle were written to his wife, Har-
riet Cook. No dissertation on Brig-
ham Young's love of family can
equal in eloquence his own words
incorporated in these letters.

Richardson's Point Camp of Israel
March 15/46 55 miles from Nauvoo

Sister Harriet Cook, my dear wife. I
address a few lines to you by Brother
Joseph B. Noble who is going to return
home immediately after his family. I have
written to a number of the friends since
I left. I expected to have returned to
Nauvoo, but it looks so much like a prison
to me that I think I shall go farther west
instead of going east at present. Brother
J. B. Noble will see that you are provided
for to come comfortably, and I want you
to come with him. I hope Brother Joseph
Young will come with him. I expect Brother
Ballott will get a good carriage or wagon
and team for you and others. Brother
Noble will get a good man to drive it. It
is likely Brother John Young and Evan
Greene, Sister Faney and others of my
friends will come at the same time. I want
you to see Sister Powers and have her
watch her opportunity and take what she
can get. Go to the store when Davis
and Powers is gone out and trade a few
hundred dollars and start with some one
that will bring her a peace with speed,
and then come with you.

I want you to see Sister Mary and Mar-
garet Pearce, Brother Robert Pearce's
daughters and see if their father is ( — com-
ing— -?) if not get them along with you if
you can. Bro. Noble will bring the sister
that is there. Sis. Betsy Fairchild wish
you could bring. Give my love to them all.
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Sister Augusta Colle I hope she will be
blest. I want (?) see her again but it is
a matter of doubt whether I can (?) for
sometime. Be cheerful and of good courage
Sister Harriet. We shall soon meet again.
We feel quite happy here in camp and are
bound for the west. Give my love to
Brother and Sister Ashly (?) and the chil-
dren. I remember their kindness. They
shall be blest, for my heart blesses all such;
there are so many talking to me I cannot
write. May the Lord bless you and all the
Saints. I wish you to read this to Sisters
Cobb, Powers, & Pearce.

/s/ Brigham Young.

Mrs. Harriett Cook
Chariton River,

March 25th 1846—100 M. W. Nauvoo

I read your letter to Luca. I was glad

to hear from you. I wish Brother John

and Evan had put two horses before the

carriage and taken you along with them.
We all want to see very much. I should
come back but feel that it would not be
safe for me to come to Nauvoo again very
soon.

Kiss the babe for me. The girls talk a
great deal about you and wish you with
them. They have a tent to themselves.
Mary Ann is very kind to them. We have
enjoyed ourselves very well on our journey
though we had much bad weather. I hope
you will overtake us before long. Brother
Joseph B. Noble will possibly bring you
and I hope Sister Powers. See Sisters Mary
and Margaret Pearce if you can see when
they are coming. Give my love to them all
to Brother and Sister Ashley and the chil-
dren. They are a blest family I think.
Sister Harriet, bring a few tin plates, cups,
and etc. and etc., if you can get them. They
will be convenient on the journey. Earthen
is not worth much and the girls are thereby
scanty for such things. May the Lord bless
you and the little boy.

B. Young

Harriet Cook

Camp of Great Council Bluffs
June 23d 1846

My dear Harriet, I have just heard you
talked of going east. Now I pray you,
harken to my counsel and come to the
west; if you have no way to come with the
Brethren where I have made provision,
write to me the first opportunity and I will
send a team after you or come myself.
Edman might bring you or you can come
with Sister Janey.

I cannot have the thought of your going
east. You will not enjoy yourself if you
go. Come here, your friends are here. We
enjoy ourselves first rate. I long to see you
safe to camp with your babe. May the Lord
bless you and yours. Give my best love
to Brother Ashly family and all of my
friends. Br. Bickford the bearer of this is
now waiting and I must stop writing.
Brigham Young.

Mrs Harriet Cook.
(Sent to the Era by Edith Young Booth)

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THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

^CigJtt

By HALLIE GRIGG

VK7HEN Jedediah M. Grant was traveling as a missionary in the
Southern States Mission in the early eighteen-forties, he stopped
one night at the home of Dr. Anderson Irving Grigg in Surrey County,
North Carolina. Cassandra, Anderson's wife, prepared supper and
a bed for Elder Grant, but before retiring the family was told many
things about the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.
Cassandra and three of her daughters were converted and baptized,
but the doctor, busy with his calls, seemed to doubt the fact that
miracles were possible in this age.

One evening Elder Grant told the Grigg family about a certain
verse in the Book of Mormon which promises that if one asks with a
sincere heart, "if these things are not true," the Lord will give the testi-
mony of their truthfulness. Dr. Grigg was deeply impressed and
began to read the book. After reading it through he pondered in his
heart about the things he had read. One night he came to the verse
which Elder Grant had once called to his attention. The doctor
went to his room, closed the door, knelt down and prayed vocally,
asking the Lord to give him a knowledge of the truthfulness of the
new book which Elder Grant had left with him. After praying he lay
in the darkness of the room in deep thought.

Glancing toward the table on which the Book of Mormon was
lying, he saw that the book was lighted up with a brilliant light that
shone in the dark room.

The book was ever afterward to him a symbol of light. Anderson
Grigg joined the Church and moved with his family to Utah. Today
many of his descendants hold the Priesthood and rejoice in the
gospel and the light which caused them to partake of its benefits.

Owl fon&titutiotL
9nApVuut

By GEORGE E. GIBBY

"Remove not the ancient landmark,
which thy fathers have set."

—Proverbs 22:28

■\17hen twenty-eight years of age, the
vv Prophet Joseph Smith made the
announcement to the world that our na-
tional constitution was divinely in-
spired. In all the history of our nation,
no more patriotic declaration has ever
been uttered, and, to the unbiased stu-
dent of history, no historical truth is
more firmly established. Many of the
fathers, together with Abraham Lin-
coln, Daniel Webster, Grover Cleve-
land, and other national leaders, ac-
knowledge the fact. The care and wis-
dom exhibited in framing that great in-
strument has no parallel in history. Let
us review, in substance, a part of the
meager report given of what took place
at that historic gathering, which gave
to the world the greatest charter of
liberty known to mankind.

During the convention, Morris spoke
173 times; Wilson, 168; Madison, 161;
Sherman, 138; Mason, 136; Gerry, 119;
and Washington, once. The conven-
tion lasted four months and four days.
The proceedings, with very few excep-
tions, were held in strict confidence.
Every member agreed he would forever
keep silent as to what took place. How-
ever, it is known that, during the ses-
sion, the forms of government involv-
ing twenty-two nations, both ancient
and modern, were discussed at some
length. The men who took part in the
discussions, and later led in laying the
foundation of our great nation, must
not be confused with the ignorant and
unlettered. They were men of experi-
ence, dignity, and learning, and there
were no factions, stimulated by selfish
political ambition, to shift them from
their motives, or confuse them in their
deliberations.

After several weeks of discussion,
when it would seem that the problem
was of such magnitude that it extended
beyond the powers of reason and de-
liberation for solution, the aged veteran,
scholar, statesman and philosopher,
Benjamin Franklin, who had spent sev-
eral years in France in the interest of
American Independence, which, inci-
dentally, involved his matching wits and
wisdom with the greatest minds of
Europe, arose, and, during a hushed
silence said:

In the beginning of the war with Britain,
when we were sensible of danger, we had
daily prayers in this room for divine pro-
tection. Our prayers, sir, were heard; and
they were graciously answered. All of us
who were engaged in the struggle must
have observed frequent instances of super-
intending Providence in our favor. To that
kind Providence we owe this happy op-
(Concluded on page 597)

565

NEW YORK

@hadlsL ofc. VYhfimjmiiLWL.

(Concluded from the August issue of
The Improvement Era.)

AN item in the Prophet says Elder
Orson Pratt would address the
■ Saints Sunday at the usual hours
at Marion Temperance Hall, 183 Canal.
(A century later his great-grandson,
Lorus Hand, leads the New York mem-
bership in song! )

Then comes a political announce-
ment:

JEFFERSONIANS ATTEND!
The friends of General Joseph Smith of
Nauvoo, Illinois, will meet at the Military
Hall on the Bowery on the 11th to select
delegates to the great State Convention at
Utica, N. Y., 23rd August, and take such
other measures as will secure his election
to the highest office in the gift of a free
and enlightened people to bestow.

By order of the
Committee of Arrangements,
SAM'L BRANNAN,
Sec'y.

At this very time Hiram B. Clawson,
of Utica, and later the father of Presi-
dent Rudger Clawson, was nineteen
years old. (His descendant, Douglas
Clawson, is a member of the Queen's
Ward, New York Stake. )

Next in the Prophet is a reprint from
the Nauvoo Times and Seasons, in-
teresting because it shows how closely
the New York Branch of 1844 kept in
touch with Church headquarters at
Nauvoo. It reports:

CONFERENCE MINUTES

Conference met pursuant to appointment
on Saturday, the 6th of April, 1844.

Present. President Joseph Smith, Hyrum
Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Wm. Marks.

O/ the Twelve. Brigham Young, Heber
C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Wilford
Woodruff, John Taylor, and Geo. A. Smith.

Presidents Joseph and Hyrum Smith
came to the stand, and meeting was called
to order by Elder Brigham Young.

Prayer was offered by W. W. Phelps.
Brother Phelps came from across the river,
over at Hanover, New Jersey, and his wife,
Sally Waterman Phelps, came from Frank-
lin, New York.

Apparently the Prophet Joseph
never visited New York City. But in
1 839, when Parley P. Pratt was labor-
ing here, the Prophet visited Washing-
ton and called on the president and his
cabinet. From Washington the Proph-
et came to Philadelphia. Elder Pratt
and the brethren met with him in Phila-
delphia, where a large church was made
available to them, and Joseph spoke to
three thousand people.

The Prophet of June 22, 1844, states
Elder Wm. Smith would preach at New
York, and Orson Hyde at the Grove,
Jerusalem, South Long Island.

566

The edition of July 20, 1844, is
columned in black mourning. Joseph
and Hyrum have been martyred. But
there is no thought of wavering. No
idea of falling by the wayside. The
paper staunchly reports conference at
Batavia, New York, on July 6, with the
noted representation of members: At-
tica (12 members), Hume (24), Ba-
tavia ( 22 ) , Orangeville ( 7 ) , Caledonia
(6), Bennington (6), Weathersfield
(2), and Millfort (3). And there ap-
pears the announcement:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints at Philadelphia, hold their meet-
ings every Sunday as usual at 3d Street
and Willow, over Marshall Institute.
Eld. J. M. Grant
Presiding.

The "J. M. Grant" was Jedediah
Morgan Grant, father of President
Heber J. Grant.

At present the buildings at 3rd and
Willow appear to be a hundred years
old. The keeper of a Hungarian sta-
tionery store on the corner located
what he believes is the old Marshall
Institute, based on the hearsay of an
old Irish carpenter who lived in the
neighborhood for many years.

Incidentally, a tract issued by Parley
P. Pratt in Washington in 1840, says
headquarters there are at 9th and D
streets.

You're still cogitating about a means
of springing your plan to Brother Utah,
when a sure-fire solution to the problem
pops into your head. Brother Utah
has a stout 1938 Ford that can travel
fast, and the sight of smooth 5th Ave-
nue, as the two of you take a restful
walk around the library halls, makes
Brother Utah recount memories of how
fast he's made the trip from Logan in
the north to St. George in the south of
Utah.

In Utah, yes, you tell him with mock
scorn, but he wouldn't do so well be-
tween New York City and Palmyra.
It's about the same distance as from
Logan to St. George, a shade over three
hundred miles. There's a quick trip
for a man! Go up New York's west
side highway, cross Hudson River at
177th Street via George Washington
Bridge, into New Jersey a short spell,
then back into New York State! Move
along Highway 17 to Liberty — five
miles from the little village of Never-
sink, where lived Thalia Howard,
mother of President Jedediah M. Grant.
Continue on Highway 17 something
over one hundred fifty miles from New
York to little Windsor in Broome
County, birthplace of Brother J. M.
Grant and his brother George Davis
Grant, for whom Grantsville, Utah,

By
CYRIL D.
PEARSON

New York Stake
Work Director

was named. Turn left at Windsor on
79 seven or eight miles down to the
site of Harmony, over the Pennsylvania
line. Or turn north on 79 a few miles
up to the Colesville section. All the
time you're on 79 you'll be on the
Susquehanna, the river of the youthful
Prophet.

You cast a glance at Brother Utah
and see a glint in his eyes.

"Stop, New York," he commands,
"don't you spoil it for a fellow about
to see the show! When do we start?"

In the afternoon, you tell him, and
you'll buy the gas. But first you must
finish the editions of the Prophet.

The Saturday, July 27th, issue, still
in mourning, says Elders Wilford
Woodruff, Orson Hyde, and Orson
Pratt have gone to Buffalo on their way
to Nauvoo.

The August 3rd number is no longer
in mourning. It carries the names S.
Brannan, publisher, and Wm. Smith,
editor. Alas for poor Sam Brannan
and erring Wm. Smith. When Parley
P. Pratt arrived in New York in De-
cember, 1844, he learned that William
Smith, brother of the Prophet, and a
member of the Twelve, was causing
dissension in the New York branches.
Both Brannan and Smith were calling
Brigham Young a usurper. Parley's
task was to shepherd the Saints back
into the fold, and he did. Wm. Smith
was disfellowshipped, but Brannan re-
pented, went to Nauvoo, and was for-
given. He returned to New York as
right hand man to Elder Pratt. Wil-
liam Smith was brought to trial before
the Church at Nauvoo in August 1845,
and cut off. Parley was present at the
trial, but remembering his former as-
sociate's conduct in New York, re-
fused to uphold him. Parley said later
that he rued the day he took back Sam
Brannan as a brother. In '46 Brannan
took the ship Brooklyn loaded with
eastern Saints to California, defied the
Church authorities, became a million-
aire, and died an outcast in poverty.
Incidentally on the voyage around
Cape Horn he took with him the
printing press from the Prophet.

The May 17, 1845, issue contains a
notice by E. T. Benson, presiding

elder, that the Saints held meetings in
Boston at Suffolk Hall, opposite Boyl-
ston Market. Elder Benson is the
ancestor of President E. T. Benson of
the Washington, D. C, Stake, and of
Sister Louise Benson Greenwood of
New York.

All too soon it's twelve o'clock —
■\* then one — and off you go with
Brother Utah on the trip. You're full
of early Mormon lore. You have an
automobile road map on which you've
indicated the still existing towns in
New York state whence came Utah
pioneers and early members. Two of a
city and one of a family! New York
villages are still filled with flesh-and-
blood fifth and sixth cousins of their
Utah relatives, and some of their names
are still in the phone directories.

From New York City came Joshua
Parker, Luther Tuttle of Manti, Joseph
Holbrook of Bountiful, and Henry Van
Tassell. Joshua Parker had his cabinet
shop at 266 Hudson Street, old num-
bering, and his residence was close by
at 29 Charlton Street. At the address
on Hudson Street is now built a magnifi-
cent new structure — but the Charlton
Street home is still extant. The present
owner says the property was part of a
real estate development backed by
Aaron Burr. Joshua Parker's shop and
home were a stone's throw from the
Marion Temperance Hall at 183 Canal
Street, where the L. D. S. services were
held. One can speculate that Brother
Parker heard the gospel because of the
proximity of his location to Church
headquarters.

Brother Paul Summerhays formerly
of New York is Joshua Parker's great-
grandson, and Sisters Vera Holbrook
Hales and Mary Holbrook Knecht are
Joseph Holbrook's descendants.

Orson Pratt, scientist and mathema-
tician, was born at Hartford in Wash-
ington County, fifty miles northeast of
Schenectady — home of General Elec-
tric and modern mathematical wizards.

And William Felshaw was from
Granville — seven or eight miles from
Orson's birthplace. Brother Felshaw
worked on the Kirtland, Nauvoo, and
Salt Lake temples, and was mayor of
Fillmore, Millard County. Incidentally,
Millard Fillmore, president of the
United States, was of the same genera-

10.

Main Street of Windsor, New York, birthplace
of President Jedediah M. Grant, and his brother,
George David Grant, for whom Grantsville,
Utah, is named.

In this house at South Bainhridge (now Afton)
in 1S27, Joseph Smith and Emma Hale were
married by Squire Tarbill.

In this house in Colesvi I le section were held
gatherings and meetings. Later it was a tavern.
Elders Curtis (a descendant of Brigham Young)
and Skidmore of Susquehanna District in front.

13. Walter M. Soper (left to right), whose family
has been members of the Church at Ocean-
side for a century; Franklin H., Alice, and
Roscoe, descendants of Thomas Grover, born
at Whitehall, New York, later of Bountiful,
Utah.

14. Old Marshall Institute on 3rd Street, near Wil-
low, Philadelphia, where Elder J. M. Grant
presided in 1844. Brother and Sister A. C.
Pearson, formerly of Brigham City, are stand-
ing by.

15. Main Street of South Bainbridge (now Afton)
where Joseph was brought for trial charged
with putting Colesville into an uproar.

tion as these early Mormon New York-
ers.

Fifteen miles north of Orson Pratt's
birthplace is Whitehall, birthplace of
Thomas Grover, bodyguard to the
Prophet. His great-grandson, Roscoe
Grover, now lives in New York.

At Potsdam, near the Canadian
border, was born the early leader,
George Albert Smith, grandfather of
Elder George Albert Smith of the
Council of the Twelve.

George W. Clyde, who settled at
Heber, and William M., his brother of
Alpine, both came from Ogdensburg
on the St. Lawrence.

And from Hamilton, where Colgate
University was founded in 1819, came
Betsy, Joseph, and Nymphus Murdock,
ancestors of Sister Lorena Chipman
Fletcher, wife of New York Stake
President Harvey Fletcher. Too, Al-
phonso Green of Brookfield, N. Y.,
and American Fork is her ancestor.

At Watertown is the birthplace of
Dimick P. Huntington, well known
Church musician who settled in Provo.
The Huntingtons are still in the Water-
town telephone book.

John E. Page and Daniel H. Wells,
counselor to President Young, both
hailed from little Trenton in Oneida
County. President Wells is the ances-
tor of Louisa Wells Luke of New York
Stake, as well as of George, Joseph B.,
Melvin and Phyllis Wells. And from
South Fremont in the same county
about the same time came George
Washington Brimhall, father of the il-
lustrious George H., late president of
Brigham Young University. Sina Brim-
hall Stevenson, wife of Dr. Gordon
Stevenson, of New York Stake, is his
great-granddaughter.

The parents of Philander Colton
came from Scipio in Cayuga County.
Philander, the grandfather of Don B.
Colton, was born in 1811, at Clarence
Hollow, N. Y. He was a member of
Company "B" of the Mormon Bat-
talion.

Howard Coray, friend of Joseph and
Hyrum, and who wrote Joseph's his-
tory, was from New York state, and
died in Salt Lake in 1908— age ninety-
one. He was a living link between
the early New York generation and
ours.

Also, there's Benjamin Covey of
Duchess County (the home county of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt),
later bishop of the Salt Lake Twelfth
Ward. And John Anthony Woolf, Sr.,
of Hyde Park, Utah, born in West-
chester County, and president of the
New Rochelle Branch in 1842. Also
John Anthony Woolf, Jr., born in 1843
at Pelham just outside New York City.
Today the great-grandson of John
Anthony, Sr., is President William
Woolf, first counselor in the New York
Stake presidency.

John Van Cott, born in 1814 at
Canaan in Columbia ' County, some
twenty-five miles southeast of Albany,
arrived in Utah in '47.

(Continued on page 581)

567

CHANGING THOUGHT

Dr. AMOS N. MERRILL

of Brigham Young University

ALTON D. MERRILL

Principal, North Emery Seminary

The Book of Mormon was pub-
lished in the year 1 830. Since
that time, volumes have been
written concerning it and many dis-
courses have been published, the au-
thors of which have either con-
demned or defended it. It would
seem that almost every phase of
Book of Mormon controversy should
have been elaborated in the mean-
time, in great detail.

Since its publication, the whole
trend of human events has been
greatly influenced by the discoveries
of science and the dominance of new
philosophies. Scholars, speakers and
writers — even the so called common
people — are not thinking today as
they did at the time the Book of
Mormon was published.

The desire to ascertain the
changes which have taken place in
emphasis or in the presentation of
new ideas as found in the published
discourses of the speakers and
writers who have dealt with the
Book of Mormon impelled a study of
this problem.

In pursuing this study, the authors
divided the time element, that is, the
time that has elapsed since the Book
of Mormon was published, into two
periods, namely, from the year 1830
to 1855, and from 1915 to 1940. In
all, 1950 articles were examined.

For data concerning the first pe-
riod, all of the available copies of the
following publications were exam-
ined:

The Deseret News, Evening and
Morning Star, The Millennial Star,
Nauvoo Expositor, The Seer, and
Times and Seasons.

Data for the second period were
gathered from the following publica-
tions :

Conference Report, The Deseret
News, The Millennial Star.

Although the sources of reference
were fewer for the second period
than for the first, much more data
were obtained from the sources of
the latter period than from the first.

Other publications in both periods
were examined, but since these re-
veal nothing of importance that was
new, it was felt that an adequate
568

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amount of data to justify conclusions
concerning this problem was found
in the publications examined. After
examining many articles from both
periods, it was observed that thirty-
seven topics had engaged the think-
ing of the authors. When new topics
appeared in subsequent articles,
these also were listed in their alpha-
betical order and formed a part of
the permanent list. The number of
times each topic was discussed, or
even mentioned, was recorded on a
table, the data from which formed
the basis for the conclusions arrived
at.

The thirty-seven topics were as
follows :

Animals

Anthropology

Archeology

As a history

Authorship

Biblical corroboration

Braille

Content

Copied from other sources

Doctrine

Distribution

Divine authority

Evidences of truthfulness from literature

Geography

Mere mention

Miscellaneous criticism

Origin

Origin of nickname

Personalities of

Pictorial illustrations

Plates

Printing

Prophecies

Publications

Purposes served

Reference to discourses concerning

Sale of

Study of

Style

Teaching

Testimony and reference to witnesses

Testimony concerning

Tradition

Translation

Truthfulness revealed

Writing about

rAviNG thus tabulated all the data
from the 1 ,950 articles and hav-
ing evaluated the articles as to length
and significance, the following con-
clusions seemed to be justified:

1. The speakers and writers of both pe-
riods emphasized the materials found in the
Book of Mormon as a source of doctrine.

2. The content phase, including story and
events, made a large appeal to the writers
and speakers of both periods. This was
especially noticeable during the latter pe-
riod.

3. There is a tendency to engage in more
thorough and meaningful discussions about
the Book of Mormon in the latter period
than in the former, but in both periods there
is a tendency on the part of many speakers
and writers merely to mention the Book of
Mormon without entering into the meaning-
ful discussion.

4. In both periods the writers and speak-
ers dealing with the Book of Mormon were
concerned mainly with relatively few topics.
Their treatment of these topics revealed a
marked similarity.

5. The writers and speakers did not make
as frequent reference to the prophecies of
the Book of Mormon in the latter period as
during the former period.

6. The facts concerning the archeological
remains as collateral evidence of the truth-
fulness of the Book of Mormon engaged the
attention of the writers and speakers less
during the second period than during the
first.

7. Speakers and writers gave but little
attention to the importance of a study of
the Book of Mormon.

8. Judging from the number of references
to such topics as animals mentioned in the
Book of Mormon, anthropology, author-
ship, Braille, copied from other sources,
copyright, evidence of truthfulness from lit-
erature, geography, miscellaneous criticism
and tradition, were of very minor impor-
tance. All save one of these, namely miscel-
laneous criticism, were included only in the
latter period.

9. The style in which the Book of Mor-
mon was written engaged the attention of
the speakers and writers in both periods.
More attention, however, was given to the
topic during the first period than during
the second period.

10. Judging from the frequency of refer-
ence in the literature, the sale and distribu-
tion of the Book of Mormon did not receive
major emphasis, especially in the first pe-
riod. In the second period, however, espe-
cially in those sources published in the mis-
sion fields, both of these topics received
considerable emphasis.

SAMPLER pwm.ihjL fia&t

By ARTHUR M.
RICHARDSON

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,N the age of sanctimony
and order, before this troubling uni-
verse was filled with modern dis-
tractions of time and talent, the
sampler flourished. A sampler is a
strip or square of linen or canvas
recording specimen stitches and pat-
terns. An ancient honorable and
most interesting history records their
development from instructors to mu-
seum pieces. Chaucer, Shelton, and
Shakespeare refer to the practice of
making them.

During the earlier stages of its
history the sampler was worked by
adults as well as by children and it
is only later that this exploitation
of youthful industry became univer-
sal among the instructors of children.
Then for many years samplers were
worked by every young girl of aris-
tocratic and well-to-do families. It
had the advantage of giving the
child skill as she worked it and of
serving as a guide and source of ref-
erence all the rest of her life. How-
ever, as the world began to move
more rapidly, the sampler, about the
middle of the nineteenth century,
ceased to become a part of education.

Finally its prominence is again
acknowledged, although in a differ-
ent way. Samplers appealed to the
fancy of the collector. Some very
fine collections have been assembled.
An individual who owns one looks
upon it as a real prize.

It is with the 1 7th century that the
history of the sampler in England
really begins. As New Englanders
were largely of northern European
and English ancestry it is easy to
trace the custom from the Old World
to the New.

One of the earliest of all known
samplers and the earliest New
World piece is in this country in the
possession of the Essex Institute in
Salem, Massachusetts, and was
worked by the first wife of Governor
Endicott. She came to Salem in
1628 and died in 1629, so undoubt-
edly the sampler was worked in her
girlhood in England. The upper part
consists of the alphabet and the
lower part of examples of needle
work.

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For this period the most familiar
type is long and narrow in shape
decorated with regular bands of em-
broidery and cut-and-drawn work.
The designs were worked on
bleached or unbleached linen with
white or colored silks and sometimes
metal threads. They went through
the usual developments from the
simple piece to that having many
complicated designs to illustrate the
different kinds of stitches.

HpHE eighteenth century saw a
change in the style of samplers.
The plain square variety gradually
superseded other shapes. Linen was
still the chief substance employed.
It is during this century that the dec-
oration of the sampler became a
much more elaborate affair. Letters,
as such, ceased to be used primarily
as markings.

In the nineteenth century a marked
deterioration of ideas set in. Designs
became stereotyped and stiff. The
cross-stitch was used practically to
the exclusion of other stitches and
came to be known as the sampler
stitch. The sampler died out about
1850.

The sampler here pictured is in-
teresting for many reasons. It shows
the influence of several earlier stages
of development. The needle work
is in cross-stitch and star stitch or, as
it was called, the mill-flower. The
interest is in the lettering while the
decoration consists of the seam-
stress's family. In this recording of
dates the worker's birthdate is men-
tioned and on the bottom of the sam-
pler the date 1820, which

is when she finished. It determines
her age at that time as eleven years
and the age of the sampler as one

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-
OLD SAMPLER OWNED BY MRS. GEORGE
A. RICHARDSON OF LYNN, MASSACHU-
SETTS.

hundred twenty-two years. Two
colors of silk were used, black and
old blue on a piece of unbleached
linen.

As this sampler shows, of course,
the embroiderer was seldom the de-
signer of the decoration upon which
her fingers worked. The sampler
was therefore a kind of notebook
exhibiting various suggestions for
needlework.

In this case, however, this fact
proves of value. Eleven-year-old
Sally Richardson no doubt worked
out a design prepared by her mother,
or at least was undoubtedly helped
and instructed by her in the comple-
tion of the work. Then, too, the
time it would take for an eleven-year-
old girl to complete the work and the
family interest that would therein
be aroused would almost preclude
the possibility of an error in name
and dates being made. Should such
a thing have occurred it would no
doubt have been corrected by any
one of a number of interested parties.

This sampler is also priceless. To
date, there has been no other place
where this family record could be
located. Neither the printed gene-
alogies nor the records of the state
of Maine have revealed it.

""Phe author of this article recently
made a trip to Massachusetts.
While there a first cousin once re-
moved having a common interest in
genealogy and of the work that had
been done on their line with its at-
(Concluded on page 579)

569

UNDEFEATED

By Anne Pendleton

The way has been long —
Searching vainly for song
To cheer my faint heart in its sorrow.
I seem quite without grace
With courage to face
That road which leads on to the morrow.
The years yield but pain,
Grim worlds war again,
On the same crimson-matted sod;
Yet may yesterday's grief
But strengthen belief
In the justice and mercy of God!

COPPER TOWN
By Helen Beckstead

THE camp sprawls out upon the mountain
sides.
Unpainted houses, leaking winds and rains,
Impartially, sag loosely on their wide
Foundation stones. The honk of ore trains
In the open copper pit, the high shrill hoot
Of large-mouth shovels biting chunks of ore
To fill the waiting cars — these sounds don't

suit
Such peace-filled hills where canyon wrens

pour
Dawn songs through the wind and yuccas

lift
Their white bells cloudward in the morning

air.

For what have thick grey tailings, sending

rifts
Of odors from the mill, to do with fair
Spring hills? And what care stinging

sulphur fumes
For the frail complexions of cholla cactus

blooms?

HARVEST QUATRAIN
By Helen Mating

THE clatter of the harvester,
The clicking of its knives —
And sacks of grain lie in the fields
Like drones pushed from the hives.

BEAUTY ROUND THE HOME PLACE
By Julia W. Wolfe

There is beauty in the making
Of brown bread from bronzed sheaves;
In the culling of a cabbage
With rain diamonds on its leaves.

There is beauty in the cattle
As they cross the cobbled square
To the shadowed barn for milking
Where two brown owls sit and stare.

There is beauty in the finding
Of an ivory egg, nest-warm;
In a shy colt's sudden whinny;
In the brood mare's patient form.

There is beauty in the home farm,
For the tending of the earth
And the care of all its creatures
Brings a primal peace to earth.

570

A TEACHER PRAYS
By Pciscilla Doe Wright

OH Lord,
I would teach songs
For other lips to sing —
I would prolong the music Thou
Hast given.

Dear Lord,

I seek Thy voice.

Oh wilt Thou share with me,

And may I learn the lessons first

From Thee?

IDLE WORDS
By Helen Miller Lehman

GOSSIP
Is like feathers
Scattered beside the road.
Retrace your steps to gather them,
And they have blown
Away.

A LITTLE HOUSE
By Rose Ross

I stand before my own white gate
And feel a surge of pride —
It's good to own a little house
In a world unfriendly wide.

A weary job, a long, hard day,

Are lost in this retreat;
On coming home my heart grows light

And briskly move my feet.

There is no wonder that a man
Will fight for home and love —

It's good to own a little house
With quiet stars above.

HARVEST FIELD

By Vesta P. Crawford

IN yellow waves beneath the burnished sky,
With rich abundance far across the plain,
Metallic in the sun, the wheat fields lie
Where sheen of beauty gilds the beaded

grain.
Alone I stand in contemplative mood
Before these acres meshed in shining gold,
Searching for words to voice a gratitude
Beyond the power of the heart to hold.
Now let us build a granary for peace
That ever in earth's wide and waiting field
The wheat again may ripen and release
The world from hunger with its ample yield;
Oh soon let a millennium be made
That men may reap the harvest, unafraid!

CONQUEST

By Ruth Marfarlane

CHARMED by the fury of the storm,
I clung today atop a jutting precipice
And watched the breakers on the rocks

below.
Mad, lashing waves they were
That spent themselves in spray, and left
The stolid stone a-glisten, but unmoved.

Above, a sea gull poised against the gale
To all appearances at rest,
And still I knew in pinion and in wing
Great force and strength maintained.
And now I come to you, to find you here,

content
Against this other storm,
Serene, secure;
For deep within your heart the peace of

God abides,
Achieved through former grim adversities.

MARGARET
By Claire Noall

To her whose torch lit the flame of my
lamp.
What matter that it went quickly by!
The lamp burned on with brighter fire
Because her word
Had quickened it.

No loss, but gain in some mysterious way
Comes through the hour of pain
And leaves the memory
Alive with lambent

Gilded edge of thought
Whose center
Does not die.

THE STAY-AT-HOMES
By Bianca Bradbury

WE sit upon a harbor dock,
Together, you and I.
And down the happy years we watch
The ships go sailing by.

But ours is moored beneath our feet
And rocking peacefully.
It holds so big and brave a dream,
It never put to sea!

THREE GIFTS OF FAITH
By Gladys B. Kennard

There is a faith man may acquire
By which he gains three things,
And gaining them, he reaches higher
Than any earthly kings:

The truths of wisdom from the past

Faith teaches us to hear;

While visions of the future can,

Through faith, his path make clear;

And last, in faith he learns to walk

The present without fear.
Such faith our leaders all possess:—
A guide to all the joy they've known.
So we, to have true happiness,
Need but to make such faith our own.

(The thought for this was taken from a
statement by Brother Widtsoe in the M
Men-Gleaner M. I. A. lessons, on his faith.)

HifBooETIacfi

CHILDREN'S STORY WRITERS
—ATTENTION

THIRTY dollars will be awarded
the best children's story submitted
before October 1, 1942, to The Chil-
dren s Friend, 39 Bishop's Building,
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Only one story of no more than
three thousand words may be sub-
mitted by any contestant, whose real
name must not appear on the manu-
script, which should carry a pen
name. Attached to the manuscript
should be a sealed envelope with the
pen name on the outside; on the inside
should be a slip of paper carrying the
real name and the address of the
author.

The story should be typewritten or
written legibly on one side of the
paper, and a statement accompany-
ing the story should certify that the
story is the contestant's original
work; that it has never been pub-
lished; that it is not now in the
hands of any editor or other person
with a view to publication; that it
will neither be published nor sub-
mitted for publication until the con-
test is decided.

IN THE GOSPEL NET

(John A. Widtsoe. Illustrated. Stevens
and Wallis, Salt Lake City. 1942.
141 pages. $1.25.)

Poignantly moving, deeply satisfying, is
this story of a woman's search for truth
and adherence to it after it was found. To
those of us of today, softened by easy living,
such adherence which impelled her to leave
country, people, friends would seem to be
the hardest of sacrifices. To her it was
the only logical action, having accepted the
gospel. A strange land, a strange language,
a strange manner of living, all could be
faced joyously in the sure knowledge that
she had of the truth of the religion she had
accepted. No hardship could be too great;
no poverty too severe but what she could
endure if only her two beloved sons might
have their opportunity in the Church with
which she was affiliated.

To our Church membership, made up
of the converts from many lands, this book
will come as a peculiar testament, reviving
the great stories of their ancestors, who
likewise "gathered'' to Zion that they might
enjoy the blessings of the restored gospel.

This book was first issued privately by
Dr. Widtsoe and distributed to his family
and close friends. At the insistence of
those who read it, he consented to have it
republished. It is now available in a de luxe
gift edition at a reasonable price. No Lat-
ter-day Saint can afford to miss the ex-
perience of reading In the Gospel Net by
Dr. John A. Widtsoe.— M. C. ].

GOD IS MY FUEHRER

(Pastor Martin Niemoeller. Philosophical
Library & Alliance Book Corporation,
New York. 1941. 294 pages. $2.75.)

This volume is a translation of the last
twenty-eight sermons of Pastor Martin
Niemoeller, vicar of Berlin-Dahlem, which
sermons were delivered from October 25,

1 936, to June 27, 1 937 — after which he was
tried by a National Socialist People's
Tribunal, and by that court set free — but
no more did he enjoy that freedom, for, as
recorded by Thomas Mann, "the gestapo
arrested him again at the back door of the
courthouse and he was taken to a concen-
tration camp by special personal order of
the fuehrer." Niemoeller was a naval of-
ficer before he was called to the pulpit. His
loyalty to Germany would seem to be
above question — but he made the mistake
of repeatedly declaring his obligation to
God and his people and his conscience

rather than accept the "new gods" and the
"new order where matters of conscience
were concerned." He knew that the secret
police were attending his services. He re-
ferred to their presence in his sermons. That
his friends had repeatedly warned him of
the consequences of this course is evident
from his utterance made in his next to last
sermon:

"Brothers and sisters ... it has come to
this; we are being accosted on all sides, by
statesmen as well as by the man in the
street,' who tell us: Do not speak so loudly
or you will land in {Continued on p. 580)

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RINK AND THE FALL OF NATIONS IS HIS-
TORY'S LESSON FOR AMERICA.

By
CHARLES S. LONGACRE

Secretary, American Temperance
Society

{Reprinted by permission from
"Signs o} the Times")

-Lh

here never has been a
greater menace to civilization and
the cause of righteousness than the
slavery and wretchedness imposed
upon humanity by the liquor traffic.
There never has been a land nor an
age in which people have not felt the
merciless grip of its fetters. It has
broken more homes, saddened more

victorious Persian in complete pos-
session of the city."1

Alexander the Great and his
Macedonian soldiers were at first in-
vincible. But after Alexander had

hearts, impoverished more families conquered the world, he was himself

provoked more quarrels, fostered conquered by the wine cup. He

more fights, wrecked more lives, abandoned himself to drink. At the

blasted more hopes and reputations, age 0f thirty-two he was master of

committed more crimes, lost more the world, but a slave to alcohol. A

wars, and ruined more nations than few months after he had reached the
any other evil agency in this world.

An eminent statesman aptly
summed up the evil effects of the
liquor traffic when he said, "It is the
sum of all villainies, the father of all
crime, the mother of all abomina-
tions, the curse of all curses, the
devil's best friend and God's worst
enemy."

History testifies that drink has
been one of the chief causes of the
downfall of nations.

Everybody knows how Babylon
was overthrown — how Belshazzar

dissipation, that the people were no
longer capable of any heroic indigna-
tion on account of the vices of their
sovereigns."3

The Western Empire of Rome
was overthrown at the hands of the
barbarians of the north because the
Romans had become so debauched
through intoxication and profligacy
that they were incapable of defend-
ing themselves. They cared for
peak .of his conquests, he was invited nought save pleasure and drink,
to a bacchanalian carousal There, "The colossal fabric planted of old
says Plutarch, he drank all that time b the patrician fatherS)
night and the next day, till at last strengthened and made great amid

SS. j. i i CTmg Up°n him' the bloody struggles of the Republic,

Thus died the mighty conqueror in transformed by the genius of Julius

a drunken debauch. C3tsar> and disgraced and degraded

'"Fhe Romans made themselves mas- by the licentiousness of the later em-

ters of the world through ab- perors, fell prostrate in the dust and

stemious habits, industry, and so- expired."*

briety. Both Julius and Augustus On Christmas night, 1776, Gen-
Caesar led a comparatively simple eral Washington, knowing that Col-

life. Their "banquets" and "tables
were never the scene of boisterous

made a great feast to a thousand of revelry and drunkenness."2 How-
his lords, "and drank wine before the ever, most of the succeeding Roman

onel Rahl and his mercenary Hes-
sian soldiers would, as customary,
give themselves over to feasting and
drunkenness in their barracks at

thousand ; how they drank wine, emperors were given to gluttony Trenton and so be off guard in the

and praised the gods of gold, and of and drunkenness," and the last three

silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and hundred years of the Roman Em-

of stone"; and how that very night pire were devoted to "frivolity, pleas-

Belshazzar the king of the Chal- ure, and dissipation." Of the closing

deans was slain, "and Darius the days of the Empire, the historian

Median took the kingdom." That
night of revelry and debauchery in
Babylon "was the night of doom. . . .
The drunken Babylonians fled in all
directions. . . . The dawn found the
572

says: 'Rome was now effeminated
and debauched. . . . And so high
had risen the vices of corruption and

1John C. Ridpath, History of the World, chapter 25.
Hbid.. chapter 62.

early hours of the morning, decided
to make his attack with a handful
of American soldiers, and won a his-
toric victory for the cause of free-
dom.

The battle of Waterloo on June

18, 1815, was lost by Napoleon be-

(Concluded on page 588)

slbid.
*lbid.

chapter 64.
chapter 66.

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urn

oves

New Expiration Date
On Temple Recommends

""Temple recommends issued to cover
the period from January 1 to June
30, 1942, will be extended to run
through September 30, 1942, it was an-
nounced by the First Presidency on
July 2.

All recommends thereafter will ex-
pire on March 31, or September 30.
This action has been taken to relieve
bishops and branch presidents of the
burden of having to issue temple rec-
ommends on the first of the year when
tithing and other records must be closed.

M. I. A. Assembly
Program is Changed

A change in the plan for the holding
*"* of the M. I. A. assembly services
on Tuesday evenings is announced by
the general boards as follows:

. . . We are recommending that this
[assembly] period occur during the last
half hour of the evening session, from 8:30
to 9:00 p. m. rather than from 7:40 to 8:10
p. m. as heretofore.

After the opening exercises all depart-
ments will go to their several classrooms
for manual work, continuing until 8:25. On
the first and third Tuesdays of each month
they will reassemble at 8:30 for a program
similar to those heretofore furnished.

On the second Tuesday they will remain
in their classrooms for recreational activities
pertaining to their own groups; these will
be outlined in each department manual.

On the fourth Tuesday all groups will
reassemble at 8:30 for a social hour con-
sisting of dancing, games, or other features.
On this evening the sessions may continue
until 9:30.

Authorities Note Birthdates

Tfwo members of the First Presidency
of the Church will mark the dates
of their birth during the month of Sep-
tember, and The Improvement Eva
wishes them many happy returns of the
day.

President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., will
celebrate his seventy-first birthday on
September 1. Formerly United States
Ambassador to Mexico, and one-time
Under-Secretary of State, he was sus-
tained as second counselor in the First
Presidency, April 6, 1933. Eighteen
months later, in October, 1934, he was
ordained an apostle and became the
first counselor in the First Presidency.

President David O. McKay will note
his sixty-ninth birthday on September

8. He was ordained an apostle April

9, 1906, and became the second coun-
selor in the First Presidency in October,
1934. He is a former general superin-
tendent of the Deseret Sunday School
Union.

Tabernacle Choir Begins
Fourteenth Radio Year

HPhe weekly nationwide broadcast of

the Tabernacle Choir and Organ

began its fourteenth year on the air

CAUTION AGAINST UNNEC-
ESSARY REQUESTS FOR
BIRTH CERTIFICATES

Because the applicants for defense
jobs and for military appoint-
ments are in most cases required to
secure certificates of birth, the office
of the Church Historian has for many
months been burdened with an over-
whelming number of requests for
birth certificates. Because of this un-
precedented demand, and because of
the limited help available for this pur-
pose, members of the Church are
therefore asked not to request birth
certificates from the Historian's Of-
fice except in case of urgent neces-
sity.

with the presentation of its six hundred
seventy-ninth program, July 1 9, accord-
ing to Elder Richard L. Evans of the
First Council of the Seventy, who
for all but the first ten months of the
broadcast's existence, has been pro-
ducer-announcer of the famed program.
The choir, older than the present
tabernacle, has been broadcasting over
national radio chains since 1929.

New Mexican Mission
President Called

"Dishop Arwell Lee Pierce of the El
■*-' Paso (Texas) Ward, Mount Gra-
ham Stake, and his wife, Mary D.
Pierce, were set apart August 13, by
the First Presidency to preside over the
Mexican Mission of the Church with
headquarters in Mexico City.

They succeed President and Mrs. A.
Lorenzo Anderson.

President Pierce was born in Glen-
wood, Sevier County, but at eight
years of age was taken to Mexico
where his family were called to col-
onize.

He served as a missionary in the
Mexican Mission from 1904 to 1906.

He made his home in El Paso from
1912 to the present time, and organized

the first Sunday School of the Church
in that city. He was a member of the
first branch presidency there, and later
was made branch president.

For a brief time he was a member of
the Juarez Stake Presidency. When the
EI Paso Ward was created in 1918, he
was selected as the first bishop, a posi-
tion he held until he was called to the
presidency of the Mexican Mission.

President Pierce is acquainted with
many of the leading officials of Mexico
as well as the mission and many of its
members.

"In The Gospel Net"
Comes From The Press

HThe first copies of In The Gospel Net
■*■ a 141-page book by Dr. John A.
Widtsoe of the Council of the Twelve,
came from the press July 23. The Im-
provement Era is the publisher of this
story, which was first published private-
ly by Dr. Widtsoe for circulation
among his friends and family, but which
was later adopted as an M. I. A. read-
ing course for the year 1942-43, and
republished for general distribution.

Primary Issues

New Lesson Material

"M[ew lesson bulletins, classbooks, logs,
* ™ class designations, and a new pro-
ject will be used by one hundred thirty
thousand Primary Association officers,
teachers, and members in the 1942-43
season, beginning in September.

Instead of the first class being de-
signated as the Beginners, it is now to
be known as Group One and includes
children four and five years of age. The
next class, Group Two, includes chil-
dren six years of age. The Zion's Boys
and Girls, which formerly was a one
year group, is now to be for two years.
The nine, ten, and eleven-year-old
boys and girls will continue to be Trail
Builders and Home Builders, with three
year lesson courses planned for each
group.

The new project of the Primary As-

A. LORENZO ANDERSON

ARWELL LEE PIERCE

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THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

sociation is "I will not talk in Church.
I will go to Sacrament meetings." The
theme of all lessons will be the Articles
of Faith.

Sunday School Urges
Building Ward Libraries

T^HE general board of the Sunday
A School has recently advised that
each ward create a library where the
standard works of the Church, other
Church books, pictures, and maps to aid
in the preparation and presentation of
lessons may be kept for the use of the
ward. The library committee of the
general board has prepared a brochure
listing enrichment books, maps, and
charts, for each course in each depart-
ment. Copies of this pamphlet may be
obtained without cost at the offices of
the Deseret Sunday School Union, 50
North Main Street, Salt Lake City.

Dr. Asper Plays
In Mexico City

]~)R- Frank W. Asper, organist at the
Salt Lake Tabernacle, gave a series
of five concerts, three at the famed
Metropolitan Cathedral, in Mexico
City, during the month of August, spon-
sored by the Sociedad de Musica de
Camara.

He also gave recitals at the famous
church, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and
in the cathedral in the city of Guada-
lajara.

New Radio
Series Begun

A new type of Church radio program,
•^ a series of round table discussions,
began on KSL on Sunday, July 19, at
9:15 p. m., M. W. T. They take the
place of the Fulness of Times, the
dramatic historical series that has
proved very popular during the fore-
going thirty-nine weeks.

American Liberty Ship
Christened "Brigham Young"

"Drigham Young, an American Liber-
*r? ty ship slid down the ways of the
Wilmington, California. August 17,
after it had been christened by Mrs.
Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, a grand-
daughter of President Brigham Young,
and wife of Elder Albert E. Bowen
of the Council of the Twelve.

Miss Anne Richards, daughter of
Elder and Mrs. Preston Richards, and
a descendant of the Young family, was
the maid of honor at the launching.

This class of Liberty ships is being
named after prominent Americans.

Clean-up of
Buildings is Requested

"Dishops are requested by the Church
beautification committee to begin a
thorough check of all Church property,
repairing all buildings in need of repair,
and turning all excess salvage over to
the government.

Ogden Second Ward
Unveils Cumorah Mural
/^\N June 21 an oil painting of the Hill
^^ Cumorah by J. M. Stewart, Jr., was
unveiled in the chapel of the Ogden
Second Ward, Weber Stake. The
evening sacrament service was built
around the history and the coming forth
of the Book of Mormon. ( See photo-
graph, lower left)

Several of the other wards in Ogden
have paintings done by Elder Stewart,
who was born in Philadelphia in 1890.

Relief Society Memorial
Campanile Plaques Designed

A vard Fairbanks, Utah sculptor, has
^* completed the plaques to be used
in the Nauvoo Temple Bell Campanile,
to be erected on Temple Square com-
memorating the Relief Society centen-
nial, which took place last March 17.
Coincident with the announcement
from Mr. Fairbanks was the decision
by the General Authorities that the
completion of the campanile will be
postponed until the war emergency is
passed. This is felt to be in harmony
with the government's war program, al-
though the project was begun and all
materials for the monument were ob-
tained before the building restrictions
were announced.

War Fails to Stop
Old World Missions

PVstrict conferences and other func-
tions of the Swedish Mission have
been conducted as usual, says the mis-
sion historical record for the twelve
months ending in April, and received in
late July. The annual report was sent

HILL
CUMORAH

by Elder C. Fritz Johansson, acting
mission president.

R. Simond, district president of the
French-Swiss district, with headquar-
ters at Neuchatel, reported a success-
ful conference held May 3, in Lau-
sanne, which was climaxed by a recrea-
tional evening attended by more than
one hundred persons.

Abraham Hindonian, acting presi-
dent of the Palestine- Syrian Mission,
reported that members were in good
condition, but the shortage of food was
growing acute. He made a special
plea that the Saints remember the mem-
bership of that mission in their prayers.

A similar report has been received
from the British Mission, where Elder
Andre K. Anastasiou is acting mission
president. Details which would be ob-
jectionable to the censors had been
omitted from all reports.

Canadian Branch
Dedicates Chapel

HpHE Hamilton Branch chapel of the
Canadian Mission was dedicated
June 1 7, by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
of the Council of the Twelve.

Two years ago the property was pur-
chased with the idea that the old house
would be torn down and a chapel
erected. In the spring of 1942, when
the plans of the new chapel had been
completed and enough money saved to
start the building, the Canadian gov-
ernment would not issue a priority per-
mit for the needed building materials.

It was suggested by one of the mis-
sionaries that the old house, standing

J. M.

STEWART,

JR.

CANADIAN MISSION CHAPEL

on the property, be remodeled. This
work was begun on March 21. Night
and day the members of the branch and
the missionaries worked, putting in new
windows, plastering, painting, landscap-
ing the grounds, scarcely finishing the
work in time for the dedication.

The Hamilton Branch is one of the
oldest branches in the Canadian Mis-
sion. At present it is presided over by
Branch President Alva O. Jones and
Victor Brown and William Ayers,
counselors. — Reported by Elder Floyd
Johnson.

T President Cites
Trends in Education

rTrOTAL war is compelling major
A changes in higher education, Dr.
Franklin S. Harris, president of Brig-
ham Young University, reported re-
cent after returning from California,

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THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

where he studied the place of college
in the war.

Brigham Young University has been
allotted a quota of eight hundred one
enlistments in the new reserve officers'
program, in which army, navy, marine
corps, and coast guard have joined.

Writers Convene
On B. Y. U. Campus

Utah has a great past which may yet
be a guide to the American future. It is
up to Utah writers to make this ideal come
true. . . .

The grand adventure of Mormonism
needs to be told to relieve the world of
illusion.

Co said Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, one
of the principal speakers at the sev-
enth annual "roundup" of the League
of Utah Writers, held in the Joseph
Smith Memorial Building on Brigham
Young University campus July 11 and
12.

Bishops, Presiding
Elders, Appointed

St. Charles Ward, Bear Lake Stake,
James N. Transtrum succeeds L. Burdette
Pugmire,

Otto Ward, Big Horn Stake, Delbert D.
Jones succeeds Albert D. Wardell.

Kanesville Ward, Lake View Stake, Rol-
lin P. Green succeeds John D. Pettersen.

East Orange Ward, New York Stake,
Oliver Wendell Hyde succeeds Veron Tho-
mander.

Bay Ridge Branch, New York Stake,
James R. Chamberlain succeeds Robert E.
Feinsuer.

Pittsburg Branch, Oakland Stake, J. H.
Kirby succeeds Francis Mellor.

Tropic Ward, Panguitch Stake, J. Oral
Christensen succeeds Samuel Pollock.

Twenty-fifth Ward, Pioneer Stake, Ed-
win Owens succeeds Arthur A. Glaus.

Olympia Ward, Seattle Stake, Vincent
Flake succeeds Denzel L. Gifford.

Tacoma Central Ward, Seattle Stake,
James N. Milligan succeeds Elvin E. Evans.

Whitewater Ward, Southern Arizona
Stake, W. L. Nelson succeeds L. I. Dill-
man.

Jackson Ward, Teton Stake, James M.
Robertson succeeds Thornton R. Richard-
son.

Washington Ward, Washington Stake,
Harold G. Clark succeeds Edgar B. Bros-
sard.

Vale Ward, Weiser Stake, Francis Nephi
Grigg succeeds George W. Palmer.

Nyssa Ward, Weiser Stake, Arval Les-
ter Child succeeds Duwayne L. Anderson.

Stakes Receive
New Presidencies

President Wayland R. Wightman
and counselors George Albert
Cheever and S. Roland Lindsay were
released from the Nebo Stake presi-
dency June 21. George F. Christensen
was appointed president with Henry
G. Lundell and George I. Spencer as
counselors.

President Douglas M. Todd, Jr., and
counselors Gilbert R. Pulsipher and
Alexander H. Yeates were released
June 28, from the presidency of the
Denver Stake. Edward E. Drury, Jr.,
was selected as stake president with

John Henry Vanderburg and Thomas
H. Butterfield as counselors.

N. Russel Tanner succeeded Frank
C. Simmons as first counselor in the
Weber Stake presidency March 22.

Bishop Harris Dies
YVTe are informed by the Presiding
"" Bishop's office that Bishop Loren-
zo M. Harris of the McCammon Ward
of the Portneuf (Idaho) Stake, died
in June. He had served as bishop for
about five years. At this writing his
successor has not been appointed.

Those Who Have Passed Away

George C. Riser, ninety-three, second
male child born in Salt Lake City, and Indian
fighter in the Black Hawk Indian war near
Sanpete in 1866, died in Salt Lake City,
July 27.

Michael Jensen, ninety-seven, pioneer of
1856, and veteran Indian fighter, died at
Gunnison, Utah, July 27.

Bessie Clawson Hughes, sixty-three, a
sister of President Rudger Clawson of the
Council of the Twelve and a granddaughter
of Brigham Young, died July 31, at San
Francisco.

William T. Owen, Jr., sixty-seven,
former counselor in the Panguitch Stake
presidency for nearly twenty years, and
former state senator died July 30, in Pan-
guitch.

Ward, Branch Changes

'T'he name of the West Compton
A Ward, of the Long Beach Stake,
was changed on July 2, to the Compton
Center Ward.

The San Rafael Independent Branch
of the San Francisco Stake was trans-
ferred to the Northern California Mis-
sion June 7.

Justice Sutherland Dies

/^.eorge Sutherland, only Utahn to
^ serve on the bench of the United
States Supreme Court, died in Stock-
bridge, Mass., July 18. He was eighty
years old.

Justice Sutherland was brought by
his parents to Utah from his native
England when he was eighteen months
old. He attended Brigham Young
Academy (now University) at Provo,
Utah, and the University of Michigan.
He was a member of the Utah State
Constitution convention, and later
served two terms in the United States
Senate. He was appointed to the Su-
preme Court by President Harding in
1922, being the first justice of foreign
birth to serve since 1794. He retired
from the Court in 1 938. Brigham Young
University conferred upon him the hon-
orary degree of doctor of laws, in 1940.
He had received honorary degrees of
doctor of laws from Columbia, Michi-
gan, and George Washington Universi-
ties during his lifetime.

The judicial robe of the late Supreme
Court Justice George Sutherland will be
presented to Brigham Young Univer-
sity, his alma mater. Having understood
that the university would like to have a
memento of him, he expressed to Mrs.
Sutherland some time before his death'
his desire to offer the robe. Mrs. Suth-
erland has offered it to the university.

Missionaries Released in June,
1942, and Others Not Previously
Reported

California: Ronald Edwin Allred, Fair-
view, Wyoming; Charles P. Brizzee, Rex-;
{Continued on page 586)

"DESERET NEWS TROUBADOURS" MAKE HISTORY

By Harold H. Jenson

[usic has always played an impor- with music has been the work of the

tant part in any activity of the "TNT" Male Chorus which stands for

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day "The News Troubadours," composed

Saints but it is singular for newspaper- entirely of men working for The Des-

men to form a male chorus. Saying it erer News. {Concluded on page 604)

Personnel of "The Deseret News" Troubadours are: Front row, Charles E. Rose, Elwood D. Penrose, Adolph Locher,
Don Priestley, conductor, Miss Bessie Murk, accompanist, Robert H. Pattillo, Donald G. Poulton and Bert Campbell;
second row, Harold McFarlane, Homer Duncan, Ken Bourne, president, Fred M. Reese, Raymond K. Williams, H.
Ralph Rich, Earl Green, Ralph H. Davison, and Leo Young; third row, Bert 0. Glass, Werner H. Rossberg, organist,
Charles Q. Hunt, Harold Zink, David C. Carlson, J. Arthur Forslund, LeRoy DeKorver, Alfred C. Swift;
fourth row, C. L. Eddy, Walter C. Brey, Levi B. Thorup, E. William Benson, Glen T. McMillan, Harold H. Jenson,
Gordon D. Priestley, James R Kennard, Frank Winn, and Alex McMaster. Wilford Craven, assistant conductor,
Albert Mackintosh, and Conrad B. Harrison, vice president, were not present when the picture was taken.

575

fcdihfiiaL

"JhsL SihaiMjy* 0$- JhudtPC'

There is an old word that has come again into
daily prominence which often implies some
deception or artifice, but which does not
necessarily carry with it such implication. The
word is "strategy."

We hear of the strategy of warfare, the strategy
of propaganda, and the strategy of achieving all
manner of ends, often by deceptive means. But
the most effective strategy is the oldest strategy
known to man. It had no beginning and shall have
no end. Expressed in one of the coined phrases of
the day, it is "the strategy of truth," and there
is no other strategy that can long withstand it.

The strategy of falsehood, so widely used in so
many places, has one great -weakness, which always
causes its downfall, and that fatal weakness is that
every falsehood must continually be explained by
other falsehoods. If any man or a group of men
set about to establish one lie, they must quickly
manufacture other lies to support it, and soon the
whole fabricated pattern becomes so complicated
that discrepancies appear faster than explanations
can be made, and the whole business falls with its
own weight.

To the persistent question — "What can we be-
lieve?" there is only one answer: the only thing
that we can believe permanently is truth. For the
same reason that our generation cannot follow a
man who still proclaims that the world is flat, just
so no enlightened generation of people can long
believe anything which does not check with all of
the other known facts of the day and all of the other
known laws and realities of the universe.

Falsehood and error are believed only by the
misinformed, and ultimately they, too, will know
the truth, and so any man or any generation that
wants to protect itself against ultimate breakdown
must lay its plans upon the strategy of truth — all
of which brings to mind the eloquent utterance
from the Psalms: "Let the lying lips be put to
silence."

There never was and never will be a man smart
enough to support any falsehood permanently, no
matter how well conceived his strategy nor how
ably he brings other fabrications to its support.
The strategy of truth is the only strategy that may
be trusted for ultimate results. — R. L. E.

T17ith school bells again summoning young folk
within four walls, all of us begin to think seri-
ously of the lessoning that we ourselves need during
the coming months. We are adjusting to situations
which last year seemed unthinkable. Restrictions
that a year ago would have been non-acceptable are
now being borne.

Even so, our schooling from now on will be more
disciplinary. The external equipment for learning
will be increasingly lessened. The responsibility
for the course of study will devolve more and more
on ourselves. We would be wise to investigate the
curriculum and analyze ourselves" in relation to it.

Certain qualities of mind and character need to
be reemphasized in these days of testing. Among
the first of these qualities must be a sense of bal-
ance. Sometimes in critical situations, unwise per-
sons feel that they may do anything that they "can
get by with." Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Rather, because serious times confront us,
we should consider more minutely and weigh more
accurately our every action. Faced with eternity,
we dare not quibble over temporal appetites or de-
sires. The placing of first things first will solve
many of what would otherwise prove discomforts.

In keeping this sense of balance, we shall place
the right values on essentials. Family life will as-
sume new importance in this emphasis. As mem-
bers of family groups, we shall find renewed pleas-
ure in those activities and pleasures wherein every
member of the family can find joyous participation
in a democratic way. As members of communi-
ties, we shall find neighborhood pleasures and satis-
factions closer at home. In learning to enjoy people
near-by, we shall lay foundations which will ul-
timately bear fruit in wider neighborliness.

Moreover, in keeping a sense of balance, we shall
feel the necessity of developing our minds through
a study of worthwhile things. We shall not fly
to the movies as a way of escape; we shall choose
carefully those pictures which will give us a whole-
some point of view. We shall read only those
books which will offer constructive ways of life.
We shall discriminate in the type of radio program
to which we and our families listen. In these ways,
and many others which we discover for ourselves,
we shall make ourselves more nearly worthy of
having been created in the image of our Eternal
Father.

We shall also maintain in our days of schooling
a saving sense of humor. This is not a brittle,
tinny humor, but the solid, deep-toned humor which
makes us know that in spite of bad conditions
which prevail, right will eventually win its true po-
sition. Humor will give us an assurance that justice
will ultimately be established among the peoples of
the earth.

Most important of all, in the days of our school-
ing, we shall put down as the foremost of the lessons
to be diligently studied and reviewed that there is
an all-wise Father who sorrows in the mistakes of
His children and who labors endlessly that they
may correct their errors and win for themselves
eternal salvation. — M. C. /.

576

Evidences and
reconciliations

Scrinhu jcl P&adiarL (p&DpdsL ?

Tn looks, clothes, language, education, business
pursuits, and the ordinary social practices, Mor-
mons are like other people. When the term "pe-
culiar" is applied to us, reference is made to our
religious beliefs, and our practices based upon those
beliefs — matters which are wholly of a personal
nature, but in which we differ from other Christian
creeds and churches.

These differences are vital, and cannot be denied.
They will make us a peculiar people until the world
comes to a unity of faith. We do not flaunt our
differences before our friends of other faiths.
Neither do we try to hide them. We are proud of
them, for they are founded in truth, and truth is our
dearest possession. We know, moreover, that if
our uniqueness were everywhere followed, peace
would again descend upon the earth.

The peculiarities of the Latter-day Saints fall
under five main heads:

First. The Church claims without reservation
that it was founded by direct revelation from God.
The Father and the Son through personal appear-
ance to Joseph Smith initiated the work that led to
the organization of the Church. By this appearance,
God was shown to be in the form of a man who
spoke with his own voice to the young Prophet,
and instructed him. In an age when most men
believe that God is an ethereal essence, bodiless
and formless, who long since has ceased to speak
to man, this claim of the Church is really its fore-
most peculiarity. This difference is emphasized
in the further claim that heavenly beings, men who
had lived on earth, had died, and then had been
resurrected, gave Joseph Smith further instruc-
tion and guidance in the work he was called to
perform. This intimate connection between the
seen and the unseen world is in some respects
strange to the Christian world, and makes of us a
peculiar people.

Second. A most formidable difference lies in the
claim that the Restored Church, patterned pre-
cisely after the Primitive Church of Christ, is the
one official instrument through which the Lord
works out on earth His plan of salvation for the
children of men. The mission of the Church of
Christ is to establish the kingdom of God on earth.
To do this, the necessary power to perform with
authority the ordinances of the kingdom is required.
This has been given the Church. The Holy Priest-
hood has been bestowed upon it by the ancient
worthies who held it when the Church was un-
defiled. Since apostacy from the Primitive Church
has occurred, and all other Christian churches lack
the authority of the Priesthood, all who desire to
enter the kingdom of God must come within the

confines of the Restored Church of Christ. It
is the Lord's authoritative Church. Under such
conditions the destiny of the Church is secure. The
Lord is always victorious; so will His Church be.

To those of other faiths, these seem daring claims,
but only such a faith gives courage and stability to
the members of the Church. In the face of such
faith fear of the future vanishes, if we but seek
earnestly to carry out the purposes of the Lord.

Third. The body of doctrine or beliefs of the
Church is a distinguishing difference. The Church
is the custodian of the gospel of Jesus Christ — the
fulness of it. A principle of truth here, another
there, characterizes the Christian churches. The
true Church is not content unless it possesses the
complete truth of the gospel. It claims to possess
all the principles of the plan of salvation. There-
fore, it accepts principles rejected or ignored by
many or all other churches.

Note some of these beliefs foreign to most modern
Christian churches: God is the Father of our spirits.
We lived with Him before we came on earth. Un-
der His divine plan these pre-existent spirits have
been clothed with bodies on earth. He watches
over His earthly children; and when occasion arises
He may speak to His children through the Holy
Spirit, by messengers, or by His very voice. The
Church is guided by the Lord through continuous
revelation. The God who spoke to His ancient
Church has the power to speak and does speak to
His authorized servants today. Such old doctrines
are new to the churches of today.

The doctrine of graded salvation, based upon
our works; eternal progression in the hereafter;
and salvation for the dead by the vicarious service
of the living are as an unknown language to the
churches of today. That the body is a sacred house
of the spirit which must be kept free from all con-
tamination or that the law of cause and effect is
operative in the spiritual world; or that the children
of men are literally the children of God and that
therefore, mankind forms a real and genuine broth-
erhood, does not seem to have dawned upon the
minds of today's religious thinkers. Yet these
and many other truths, belonging to the complete
gospel of Jesus Christ, are really age old. But
since they have been rejected or forgotten, they
make us who accept them seem different. In such
a larger and more complete knowledge we rejoice.

Fourth. Even more peculiar to the thoughtless
crowds of the day, is the Mormon insistence that
using truth is just as important as knowing truth;
that "faith without works is dead." Every act of
life should be influenced and directed by the laws
of the gospel. The purpose of the plan of salvation
should be the purpose, directly or indirectly, of
every human undertaking. Life under the gospel
can not be placed on one side, and our daily tasks
made independent of the gospel on another. The
gospel must be lived daily. It must be lived sin-
cerely. Obedience to the Lord's law — whatever
it may be — daily, steadily, always — is the true
measure of success.

Certainly, many Christians try to obey the Lord's
law, as they understand it. More do not. Hence,
drunkenness, immorality, {Concluded on page 607)

577

CONDUCTED BY MARBA C. JOSEPHSON

WHY MEAT GREASES MUST
BE SAVED

You may be able to save the lives of
American soldiers, sailors, and
marines — by simply saving the
kitchen greases that are usually wasted.

Right now, the average American
family wastes enough grease in a week
to supply the nitroglycerin for a shell
that will stop an enemy tank.

Experts say that four-fifths of the fat
content of mutton and lamb is now be-
ing lost. Three-fifths of the fat of pork,
half the fat of beef and veal, one-fourth
of the fat of poultry are also wasted.
And we can't afford to waste these pre-
cious fats. They are too sorely needed.

For, from meat fats we can get gly-
cerin— and from glycerin is made nitro-
glycerin for the high explosives we and
our allies must have.

Salvage experts agree that the quar-
ter-pound to half-pound of animal fats
that could be collected every week
from each American family group
would yield a net return from the
whole nation of as much as a billion
pounds a year. All this is now being
wasted. And we cannot afford to waste
even one ounce of it — not if we expect
to be considered real Americans.

Let's think of that possible recovery
of a billion pounds of animal fats that
would be wasted in ordinary years.
Let's put it in terms of the fighting
equipment we must have in this time of
national peril. Say those last words
again — 'national peril" — and the fig-
ures will take on new meaning.

A pound of glycerin is made from ten
pounds of the animal fats you save.
With this pound of glycerin the ammu-
nition plants make nearly two and one-
half pounds of nitroglycerin, that de-
structive giant that can blast battle-
ships from the ocean, tanks from the
land and planes from the sky. Those
ships and tanks and planes must be
stopped or they will take from us the

•

STRAINING FATS
INTO CLEAN

TIN FOR
STORING IN

REFRIGERATOR.

free American way of life we love. We
must save grease.

Every American housewife will ac-
cept it as her plain duty to follow the
simple rules that will help her country
win a war it can't afford to lose.

Collect the greases from cooked
meats and gravies and soups — every
ounce of it that is not actually eaten.
Pour these greases through a cloth-
covered sieve into spotlessly clean tin
cans or other metal containers (not
into glass jars) and store in your re-

frigerator until you have a full pound
or more. Sell this grease to your neigh-
borhood butcher.

Your butcher, and many thousands
of other butchers will pass the collec-
tions of greases to the refiners, who in
turn will send them to makers of am-
munition and other war essentials.

The next time you are tempted to
waste an ounce of grease that belongs
to our country remember that the com-
pass of every navy vessel floats in a
bath of glycerin, that the recoil action

"CATCH !T" 46A/N/

578

of every big gun, and the mechanisms
that release deadly depth charges can-
not operate efficiently without glycer-
in. Remember that this same glycerin
is used to make explosives for the fight-
ing men of all the United Nations.

Remember all these things — and your
conscience won't let you waste an
ounce of grease.

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Payment for Handy Hints used will be
one dollar upon publication. In the event
that two with the same idea are submitted,
the one postmarked earlier will receive the
dollar. None of the ideas can be returned,
but each will receive careful consideration.

When one of the children has a birthday
you can make a circus parade around the
cake or around the edge of the table. Dip
the feet of animal crackers into stiff frosting
and stand on small sweet wafers. They
can also be used as place cards. — Mrs. D.
D., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Instead of each individual's putting sugar
on his cereal for breakfast, try putting about
one-third less sugar than would ordinarily
be used, into the pitcher of milk or cream
to be used, and stir until dissolved. This
method will also save time where there are
small children in the family. Any left over,
sweetened milk may be used in puddings,
cakes, etc. — Mrs. W. A. M„ Thatcher, Ari-

zona.

A n extra $5.00! Who wouldn't want it?
** See details, right hand column, p. 581,
and get busy!

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Sampler from the Past

(Concluded [com page 569)
tendant problems brought out this
sampler.

It had been willed this cousin by
an elderly aunt who not long since
had passed away and it had been
in her possession for many years,
carefully preserved but seldom seen.
So far, it seems to be the only link by
which we can further trace this par-
ticular branch of the family.

A valuable clue came to light in
the name of the mother. Until this
sampler revealed the name as Je-
mima it was thought to have been
Jerusha. The correct name of the
mother with the birth dates of all the
children is indeed a find.

Samplers are not too rare a thing
in themselves. Of them, those car-
rying a genealogical tree or the fam-
ily of the seamstress are more un-
usual.

Who can say why this mother
and daughter recorded family vital
records on this sampler which, so far
as is now known, is the only link
which connects the present with the
past?

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make these golden Honey Hermit cookies, suggested by
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use Globe "Al" Flour for best results, and an extra saving.

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Vi tsp. nutmeg Vi c- chopped nuts

Sift flour, measure, add soda, salt, cinna-
mon and nutmeg. Beat egg until light,
add honey, shortening, raisins and nuts.
Add dry mixture, mixing thoroughly.
Drop by teaspoon 'on greased cookie
sheet. Bake in moderately hot oven (375
deg.) about 10 min.

Say "GLOBE Al" and save the difference!

579

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

JunkK

is no longer
rationed

The interruption of Par Soap pro-
duction caused by a fire which
visited the plant last May, is now
a thing of the past. Your grocer,
and you. can again get this fa-
vorite granulated soap, and with

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Pottery

in the new ivory hue

Colored pottery is out "for the
duration," because colored glaze
requires the use of tin oxide. The
new Ivory pottery is genuine
Parma pottery, in the same fa-
miliar, pleasing design, harmoniz-
ing perfectly with any or all col-
ors. Again . . . ask your grocer
for Par

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By Josephine B, Nichols
Whole Wheat Caramel Cocoanut Cake

3^2 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar

2 egg yolks

]/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon vanilla
\>2 teaspoon soda

2 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups whole wheat flour

1 cup milk

1 tablespoon lemon juice added to milk

2 egg whites

Combine shortening, salt, and vanilla. Add
sugar gradually, and cream until light and
fluffy. Add beaten egg yolks, and mix
thoroughly, sift flour, baking powder, and
soda together. Add small amount of flour
to creamed mixture, alternately with milk,
beating after each addition until smooth.
Beat egg whites until stiff and fold carefully
into mixture until well blended. Pour batter
into two well greased eight-inch layer pans.
Bake 350° F. for forty-five minutes.

While still warm spread with the follow-
ing frosting.

Caramel Cocoanut Frosting

1 cup brown sugar

x/i cup cream

1 cup cocoanut

2 tablespoons butter

Boil sugar and cream to soft ball stage,
add butter, stir until thick enough to spread,
put on cake, sprinkle with cocoanut, place
under broiler until golden brown.

Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
Cut in fat until mixture is as fine as corn
meal. Combine beaten egg and peach syrup
and add to flour mixture, mixing until a soft
dough is formed. Spread dough over
peaches. Bake in hot oven (425° F.) twen-
ty-five minutes. Serve with cream.

Luncheon Salad

2 7-ounce cans tuna fish
1 cup diced cucumber

1 cup chopped celery

}/2 cup chopped green pepper

2 tablespoons grated onion
3^2 teaspoon salt

1 package lime flavored gelatin
1 cup boiling water

2/s cup cold water
J^5 cup vinegar

Drain oil from tuna fish and flake. Add
chopped drained vegetables and salt. Thor-
oughly dissolve lime gelatin in one cup of
boiling water, add cold water and vinegar.
Cool until mixture begins to congeal, then
add fish and vegetable mixture. Pour into
individual molds and chill until firm. Un-
mold on lettuce leaf and garnish with to-
mato wedges and mayonnaise dressing.

Peanut Butter Cookies
l/2 cup shortening
134 cup honey
Yl cup peanut butter

1 egg

3j/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon soda

Combine fat, honey, and peanut butter,
mix well. Add beaten egg and mix thor-
oughly. Sift flour with baking powder, add
to first mixture, blending well. Pinch off
small ball of dough and place on greased
baking sheet, flatten with fork. Bake in
moderately slow oven (325° F.) ten to fif-
teen minutes.

Frankfurter Macaroni Loaf

1 cups macaroni

2 cups grated American cheese
2 eggs

1 cup milk

2 teaspoons salt

6 large frankfurters

Cook macaroni in boiling salted water
for twenty minutes. Drain and combine
with cheese, milk, beaten eggs and salt.
Put a layer in the bottom of well buttered
loaf pan. Lay half of the frankfurters on
top lengthwise of pan. Add another layer
of macaroni mixture, then rest of frank-
furters, topping with rest of macaroni. Bake
in (350° F.) oven for one hour or until
solid.

Turn out onto platter and garnish with
tomato wedges and slices of cucumbers.

Peach Cobbler
\x/i cups sliced peaches
34 cup sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 Y2 cups sifted flour

2 teaspoons baking powder
34 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons shortening
1 egg

Place peaches in a buttered eight-inch
baking dish. Sprinkle with sugar and lemon
juice.

On the Book Rack

(Continued from page 571 )

prison. Pray do not speak so plainly:
surely you can also say all that in a more
obscure fashion.' Brothers and sisters, we
are not allowed to put our light under a
bushel: if we do so, we are disobedient;
but we have received our commission from
Him who is the light of the world. . . .

" 'He that findeth his life shall lose it: and
he that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it.' ... I must speak thus once again
today, for perhaps I shall no longer be able
to do so next Sunday: I have to tell you
that today once again as plainly as I can,
for who knows what next Sunday may
bring forth? But it is our duty to speak.

As long as there are those to speak with
this kind of courage, in the face of death —
or worse— freedom will never be a dead
issue in any land — not even where men are
held in slavery for the moment. — R. L. E.

EASY TO BUILD MODELS OF
FIGHTING PLANES OF THE
UNITED NATIONS

(Doubleday, Doran, New York.
1942. 27 pages.)

'T'his book with its push-out plane pieces
■* which can be assembled is an invalu-
able book to have when children are well,
and think what it can do for the harried
mother when her children are forced to re-
main in bed with a cold. Sixteen models
should be enough to assure absorbed in-
terest on the part of any child old enough
to assemble the pieces, which are clearly
marked. — M. C. /.

INNER SPRINGS
(Frances Lester Warner. Illustrated.
Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston.
1942. 189 pages. $2.00.)

"pRiENDLY books that introduce us to the

■*- happiness and security of family life

(Concluded on page 602)

580

NEW YORK— CRADLE OF MORMONISM

( Continued from page 567 )

And from Hempstead, Long Island,
came Phoebe Soper Pratt, wife of
Parley P. Pratt. The Sopers, who came
to Long Island not long after the Pil-
grims landed at Plymouth, have been
stalwarts in the Oceanside, Long Island,
branch for a century. Walter and Gor-
don, the sons of the late "Uncle" Henry
Soper, are carrying on the tradition of
their forefathers. The Pratts are still a
famous and a leading family in New
York. There's Prattsburg in Steuben
County, Prattsville in Greene County,
and Pratts Hollow in Madison County.
The "King Sisters," nationally known
radio stars, and nieces of Howard R.
Driggs, are the great-granddaughters
of Parley P. Pratt. It's a quarter of
an hour by subway from where Parley
preached to where his great-grand-
daughters formerly sang with Horace
Heidt.

But there are too many of the early
N. Y. members to tell of here. Hun-
dreds of them, young and old, male and
female, strong and weak, even as you
and I.*

"Drother Utah's 1938 Ford rolls over
*■* the huge George Washington
Bridge at 177th Street, and up II. S.
Highway 17. Some fifteen miles be-
fore Binghampton you're in thriving
little Windsor, birthplace of Jedediah
M. Grant. This is Broome County.
(Remember the saying in the 128th
Section of the Doctrine and Covenants
that the voices of Peter, James, and
John were heard on the Susquehanna
between Harmony and Colesville,
Broome County! ) County Clerk Flook
has old maps and deeds showing old
Colesville was about three miles north
of Onaquaga. David H. Burr's Atlas
published in 1839 by Stone and Clark
of Ithaca, has the following reference
for the year 1829:

Colesville, acres 42,694; population
2,230; saw mills 22; grist mills 3; fulling
mills 2; tanneries 4; carding mills 2.

But there is no Colesville now —
though West Colesville and North
Colesville still preserve the name.

H. P. Smith's history of Broome
County, written in '85, says that Jo-
seph Knight's farm was a little east of
Ninevah, and that Mr. Knight had a
carding mill above Center Village. H.
P. Smith refers facetiously to Joseph
Smith and particularly to the mis-
chievous pranks of one George Col-
lington, a youth of the community who
was addicted to playing tricks on the

*An elaborate chart and map of many
other New York families has been pre-
pared by the author and deposited in the
Church Historian's office in Salt Lake City.
youthful prophet. You are successful
in locating the present George Colling-
ton, grandson of the original, and he
with Alfred Fowler, the grandson of

William May, also a contemporary of
the original Collington, point out to you
the location of the Knight carding mill,
and permit you to take their pictures.
You also see the Colesville burying
ground, with the old graves of Coles,
Bennetts, Knoxes, Martins, Marshes,
and others. Too, there's an old house
still standing which was originally used
as a meeting place.

The Susquehanna runs through
Windsor, as stated before, the birth-
place of President J. M. Grant, New
York — Pennsylvania border, thence to
Oakland (formerly Harmony). In
Oakland still lives the Van Antwerp
family, the descendants of Isaac Hales
sister. None of the Hales is living.
The widow of L. E. Van Antwerp
(who was Emma Smith's second
cousin) receives you courteously and
tells you about her late husband, who
in 1936 gave a picture of Isaac Hale
to the Church. In the cemetery is a
pathetic little stone, dated 1829, mark-
ing the grave of Joseph's and Emma's
first infant son. The wording on the
stone is unusually clear, but you can't
help thinking that this little stone has
remained here bravely facing the ele-
ments during the trek to Kirtland, the
flight to Missouri, the building of Nau-
voo, the martyrdom of Joseph, and
even the exodus to the west.

Northeast of Windsor some fifteen
miles is Afton (until 1875 called South
Bainbridge) in Chenango County.
Here it was in 1827 that Joseph brought
Emma Hale from Harmony to be united
in marriage to her by Squire Tarbill.
William Carr, the present seventy-five-
year-old village clerk, tells you about
the house in which the marriage oc-
curred. The New York department of
education has erected an appropriate
marker in front. Mr. Carr tells you
that Zene Tarbill, descendant of the
original Squire, died only three or four
years ago.

And it was up to South Bainbridge
that the mob took Joseph after the mir-
acle over Newell Knight, claiming Jo-
seph was guilty of putting Colesville in-
to an uproar. But the Bainbridge jus-
tice sent Joseph back to Colesville for
trial, and he was released. One of the
two men who defended Joseph before
the Bainbridge justice was a Mr. John
Reid, a non-member. Little did John
Reid realize as he defended the youth-
ful Joseph, that his own son, Amos
Reid, half a century later would be
appointed by the president of the
United States as secretary and acting
governor over the Mormon people in
the territory of Utah. But no one here
knows the Reids, though the old
timers remember the Knight family.

It's surprising what distorted folk-
lore exists here about Joseph and the
Mormons after a hundred years. El-
derly Henry Young and Mrs. Fisher of
Nineveh tell you of the statements
(Continued on page 582)

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made by William Johnson, who was a
boy here, when Joseph dwelt in these
parts. They point out "Bible" Hill and
assure you that the plates were taken
from that hill. Even an official marker
erected by the New York department
of education on highway 41 in 1932,
near little Cornell Creek, says that Jo-
seph claimed to have dug up Book of
Mormon plates half a mile up the creek
— \y2 miles from Afton (South Bain-
bridge ) .

Little Sanford in this section is the
home of Nelson Whipple, the ancestor
of the Whipples of Utah. You remem-
ber them back in Lehi, and you take a
picture of Sanford under a light snow-
fall.

One thing that definitely impresses
you after visiting with the Van Ant-
werps, the Collingstons, the Fowlers,
the Carrs, the Pines, the Youngs, and
others of the present generation in Har-
mony, Windsor, Sanford, and South
Bainbridge, is that the day of their
glory is departed. They tell you sadly
of their great mills and virility of a
century ago, but even as they are talk-
ing you can't help thinking of the pro-
gress of their erstwhile neighbors who
went to Utah — the Smiths, the Grants,
the Youngs, the Whipples, the Wells,
and many others.

"Drother Utah is keeping his eyes
straight ahead on smooth U. S. 17.
There's a light early snow on the
ground, and the smell of the earth is
crisp and sweet. Broome County on
the Susquehanna River averages 100
days of snowfall out of 365.

"Never knew this country could be
like this," Utah admits. 'Only 150
miles from New York, and except for
the automobiles and concrete roads it's
the same as a hundred years ago. Yel-
lowstone River hasn't a thing on the
Susquehanna. And seeing it from the
rolling hills of Broome County, it brings
back old memories."

You'd like to stay here longer and
look up old records and newspaper ac-
counts of the early days, and interview
the whole third and fourth generation
of those Broome County inhabitants
who wanted no part of Mormonism.
But time just won't permit, and you
continue on to Binghampton.

At Binghampton you eat supper at
Community Restaurant, famous all over
New York. Some of the present mem-
bers in New York City who like to
reach Kirtland, Ohio, (on the outskirts
of Cleveland ) by auto in one day, leave
the City about three a. m., breakfast in
Binghampton, and eat supper at Kirt-
land. And in a plane it would be only
a couple of hours! Rather different
traveling from the way the Colesville
Saints went to Kirtland over a hundred
years ago.

By the time supper is over at Bing-
hampton, the moon is shining on the

Susquehanna. At Owego you turn on
Route 2, passing by Berkshire, where
was born J. N. Goodale, later of Ogden.
Then on to Ithaca (high above Ca-
yuga's waters), home of Cornell Uni-
versity at the base of the Finger Lakes
where many Utahns have attended col-
lege. From Ithaca came John Seamon,
who settled at Morgan, Utah. Today
the Finger Lakes region is a vacation
land for New Yorkers. The lakes,
( look at them on the map ) , of course,
get their name because they resemble
the fingers of an outstretched hand —
Seneca and Cayuga being the largest.
Much of early Church history centers
around Seneca Lake. In this lake was
held the second group of baptisms in
the Church. In June, 1829, Hyrum
Smith and David Whitmer were bap-
tized here by Joseph, and John Whitmer
was baptized by Oliver Cowdery. On
Route 2, after a rest at Ithaca, you
come to Ovid, birthplace of early mem-
bers, Zebedee Coltrin and Samuel K.
Gifford of Spring ville, Utah. Some
thirty miles north of Ithaca you come
to little Fayette. A service station man
directs you to the Whitmer house,
where the Church was organized. It
doesn't take long to reach the classic
pillared house where the six brethren
met to organize the Church under the
laws of New York. It's a clear, late,
autumn morning, and you fancy you
can almost visualize the people who
dwelt here then — the twenty-four year-
old Prophet, Emma, Hyrum, Oliver
Cowdery, and the Whitmers, most of
them young and bravely facing life.
Fourteen full years were to elapse be-
fore the martyrdom at Carthage. On
the nearby farms live the people who
are the descendants of those of 1830.
A hundred years makes little difference
in the rolling hills and valleys of Sen-
eca County. Oliver Cowdery's wife,
one of the Whitmers, was a Fayette
girl. But there's too much to contem-
plate. All too soon you must leave
Fayette for Manchester. It's about
thirty miles — roughly the distance from
Salt Lake to American Fork. Man-
chester is like the other small New
York villages. Some of the houses and
churches are over a hundred years old.
Breakfast at the little restaurant tastes
good, and as you eat, you think of
the famous Porter Rockwell who came
from here. You mention that it seems
odd a frontiersman like Porter Rock-
well should come from this drowsy little
place.

"No more odd than David Whitmer
from Fayette dying down at Richmond,
Missouri, or Sidney Rigdon spending
his last days in melancholy at Friend-
ship, N. Y.," says Brother Utah.

The Manchester village clerk says no
one now knows any Rockwells here-
abouts.

"Defore resuming the trip to Palmyra
on Route 21, you glance at Route

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2 on the map, seven miles back to
Clifton Springs, the home of E. W.
Vanderhoef, born in 1825, a man of
high education and attainments. In a
written work, Vanderhoef says he was
reared amid all the hubbub and con-
troversies that raged around the early
L. D. S. Church in this vicinity. He
was extremely cynical about the
Church and the Smiths. He refers to
two affidavits, one by prominent citi-
zens of Manchester, and the other by
those of Palmyra, attesting to the shift-
lessness of the whole Smith family, and
particularly Joseph. But any lawyer
knows how simple it is for a prominent
man or committee to obtain signatures
of even well-meaning people on a pre-
pared ex parte declaration. A leading
man of the community brings it to John
Q. Citizen, says its O. K. and John
Q. is likely to sign. And that is why
a court will not receive such affi-
davit evidence when the declarants
have not been put through the fire of
cross-examination. The Manchester
and Palmyra declarations denounce
the whole Smith family — not excepting
Alvin. You turn over a couple of
pages in Vanderhoef, and learn with
amazement that Vanderhoef himself,
while condemning the rest of the
Smiths, expresses his approval of Alvin
Smith, and says if Alvin had not died
in young manhood, his influence with
Joseph would have prevented the Book
of Mormon from reaching the light of
day. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus!
is a maxim of the common law, and
Vanderhoef's spontaneous estimate of
Alvin contradicts the all-out condem-
nation of the others. Incidentally,
Vanderhoef says that old residents of
Manchester or Palmyra will recognize
the high standing and repute of the
signers of the declarations. The names
of some of these families still appear in
the local 1940 telephone directories.
The Sextons and Hurlbuts are in the
Palmyra directory; the Durfees are in
Newark, the Beckwiths in Newark and
Sodus, and the Butts in Lyons and
Sodus. Of course the declarations of
people by these names a hundred
years ago in no way reflects on the in-
tegrity of living residents of the same

name.

Vanderhoef pounced on a report in
the New York Times of Feb. 25, 1888,
announcing David Whitmer's death,
which stated he had renounced his tes-
timony. Vanderhoef's letter to the
postmaster at Richmond, Missouri, ask-
ing for particulars brought a posthaste
reply that Whitmer had never denied
his testimony. Forgood measure the
postmaster, Dr. S. T. Bassett, made a
similar comment regarding Oliver
Cowdery, who also had lived at Rich-
mond. A madder but not a wiser man,
Vanderhoef then says, "One of the
strangest of the many strange features
of Mormon history is the fact that

though a number of its pioneer pro-
fessors withdrew or were expelled
from the Church no one of them ever
attacked its doctrines or denounced the
fraud."

So much for Vanderhoef of Clifton
Springs, who lived less than ten miles
from Cumorah.

Says Brother Utah, "He sounds like
the age-old echo, 'Is this not the car-
penter's son?' "

The old surveyor general of New
York carried a copy of Lemprieres'
classical dictionary and as he surveyed
locations he gave them such names as
Rome, Utica, Pompey, and Homer. At
the crossroads of the Genesee Trail he
left the name Palmyra, the classical
designation for ancient Tadmor of II
Chronicles. The fertile lands of the
Genesee attracted such people as the
Smiths, the Youngs, and the Kimballs
from hard-bitten New England, or, as
one commentator puts it, New England
of the late 18th century and early 19th
was transplanted to northern New
York. And thus came Joseph Smith to
be reared within an hour's walk of
Cumorah.

T_Tistorians say two great events oc-
7 •*■ curred in New York in 1825. One
was Lafayette's visit, and the other the
completion of the Erie Canal, open-
ing the west to the east. Palmyra was
on the Erie Canal.

The Martin Harris farm is outside
of Palmyra. It is said that when
Martin mortgaged it to pay for the first
printing of the Book of Mormon, his
wife refused to encumber her wifely
dower, so they partitioned off her
eighty acres where she dwelt in splen-
did isolation.

But enough of these old wives' tales.
You wish you had time to "do" this
whole section as you did the Colesville,
but that will have to wait. It is still
early morning, with the tiniest feather
of frost in the air, as the car pulls up
on Highway 21 alongside Cumorah.

Next is the Sacred Grove. Time
won't permit you to meditate as you'd
like to on the events which took place
here, so you plan on saving that for
another time.

Via Manchester you get Route 2, and
go to Victor, where Heber C. Kimball
married Vilate Murray. Then to Men-
don, where dwelt Brigham and Heber
when they were baptized in 1832.

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at Brother Utah. He has been silent
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must be tired. But his eyes are
straight ahead on 332 toward Can-
andiagua at the head of Seneca Lake.

"Next holiday we get, Brother New

York," says he, "what do you say if

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[Concluded on page 584)

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source in upstate New York down to
Chesapeake Bay?"

You try to squelch your astonish-
ment, but it only brings a second rate
attempt at a cough.

"Or maybe," continues Brother
Utah, eyes still glued on 337, "we could
take the swing around New England
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Conflict

(Continued from page 559)
more of a nuisance than a help in the
kitchen anyway.

Although he was holding the pa-
per before his eyes, Jim was not
reading. Tonight he would tell Jane
that he wanted her to stop smoking.
It made him feel shaky. The smell
of tobacco smoke in the room kept
reminding him of his unpleasant
task. It kept reminding him that to-
night might be his last here in this
room.

How would he go about it? The
sound of the swinging door between
the kitchen and the living room broke
his ponderings. He looked up. Jane
was coming toward him, dressed in
a quaint, brightly patterned house
dress. "Why so glum, Jim? You
look as though you didn't enjoy my
dinner."

Jim smiled. "As my future wife
I think you'll do very well, and as my
sweetheart tonight, you're perfect,"
he replied with more enthusiasm
than he sincerely felt.

Jane sat down on the little foot-
stool at his feet, placed her elbows
on her knees, cupped her chin in her
hands and looking at Jim said in a
voice that made him wince inwardly,
"Jim, when do you think we'll have
enough money to get married?"

Looking at his hands, Jim did not
reply immediately, and then reach-
ing out and clasping both her hands
in his, he looked at her and began.
"Jane, I'm going to say something —
I mean I'm going to ask you some-
thing, and, well, I hope you'll take
it right and see me through it." He
paused, because his voice felt tight,
and his breathing seemed irregular.
Jane stopped twisting the ring on his
finger, and then in a hushed, ques-
tioning tone, her voice came to him.

"Yes, Jim, what is it?"

584

CONFLICT

"Well, Jane, I don't know exactly
where to begin, but I guess the long
and short of it is that — well, I want
you to stop this smoking habit."

Jane straightened up. She pulled
one hand away from Jim's. Surprise
showed on her face.

Jim was angry with himself. Why
had he started the thing off in that
fashion? He had been too blunt,
too abrupt; he should have built up
to it a little more.

Words were beginning to form in
Jane's face. Jim hastened to stop
them. "You see, Jane, I got to think-
ing about our marriage, and I natur-
ally thought of children we might
have. And it was while I was think-
ing of the children that I thought of
our smoking.

"Well, maybe I'm old fashioned
and all that, but it suddenly struck
me that we couldn't be good parents
and smoke. Somehow, when I
thought about our smoking before
those children, it seemed wrong; it
seemed as though we wouldn't be
doing our duty to them. Maybe this
is crossing the bridge before we get
to it, but nevertheless, we must con-
sider the future."

Jane sat quietly, looking very
earnestly at Jim as he spoke. Her
eyes were open a little wider than
normal, and her hands were lying
limply in her lap. Jim went on, look-
ing first at Jane and then at his
hands.

"I felt I had no right to ask you
to stop until I had done so. I sup-
pose you've noticed that I haven't
been taking them lately. Well, Jane,
I've stopped. It was tough sledding
for awhile, but I feel free of it now,
and I want you to do the same.

"I love you, Jane, and I want to
marry you more than anything else
in the world. Won't you do this so
that all we've planned will not be
destroyed?"

"You want me to choose between
you and cigarets, is that it?" Her
voice had a sharp, cutting tone.

"No, it isn't that, Jane. I merely
want to work this thing out with
you."

Turning her back to him, she
walked slowly across the room, and
then turned suddenly. This time
there was a half-pleading, half-de-
fiant look about her.

"But, Jim, lots of women smoke
today."

Jim looked away. He had to con-

vince her. What could he say that
he hadn't already said.

"Jane, I'm afraid there can be no
compromise here. Please try, just
try to see if you can do it."

She looked at him for a silent mo-
ment from across the room. She
seemed confused, as if she wanted
to say something or do something
but all the time realized that there
were really but two solutions to this
problem.

She went out of the room and
came back with Jim's coat and hat.

"Here, Jim, I think you'd better
go." To Jim she seemed to be talk-
ing very quietly, very calmly, as
though she were steeling herself for
something. As she opened the door
for him, she spoke again.

"I'll have to think this over. Take
this ring," she removed the engage-
ment ring he had given her, "and
don't try to see me for awhile. May-
be I'll invite you over to dinner some
evening — again."

Anguish smothered him as he
made his way down the street. He
had lost Jane. Why had he been
so stubborn about all this, anyway?
Why hadn't he just accepted things
as they were? But Jim knew.

One hope remained. Maybe she'd
invite him over to dinner again some-
time. As he walked home he began
to understand her last statement. If
he ever received this invitation, he
knew that her battle, too, had been
won.

His life became an ache of wait-
ing. Days merged into each other.
Weeks rolled by. To Jim, every-
thing seemed dull, meaningless rou-
tine. He thought of Jane constantly.

Then came the answer to his
prayers — Jane's voice on the tele-
phone. Almost in a sob it seemed
she said, "How'd you like a fried
chicken dinner tonight, Jim?"

Snatching his hat and his coat,
Jim was gone. Gone to what he
knew was to be a happy future free
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town, Idaho; Keith E. Garner, San Fran-
cisco; Parley G. Jansson, Salt Lake City;
Joseph L. Sellers, Rexburg, Idaho; Rao J.
Sorensen, Bancroft, Idaho; Glen W. Clarke,
Ogden; Kenneth N. Gardner, Delta, Utah;
Reed G. Gillespie, Provo; Earl Hill Tew,
Shelley, Idaho; Newell M. Washburn, Pasa-
dena, California; Vaughn B. Wonnacott,
Salt Lake City.

Japanese: Ray W. Ipson, Salt Lake City;
Reese B. Mason, Howell, Utah; Lowell G.
Stallings, Eden, Utah.

Mexican: Hugh Day McClellan, Colonia
Juarez, Chi., Mexico; Charles O. Martineau,
Colonia Juarez, Chi., Mexico; Wendell L.
Pierce, El Paso, Texas; Edwin Isaac Taylor,
El Paso, Texas; Wilson Walter Turley,
Colonia Juarez, Chi., Mexico; Emeron Ed-
ward Wall, Provo.

New England: James W. McConkie, Salt
Lake City; Heber J. Reid, St. George, Utah;
Addison Udall, Thatcher, Arizona.

Northern: Leland E. Hiltbrand, Pocatello,
Idaho.

Northern California: Evan M. Thomas,
Weston, Idaho; Gordon E. Bergstrom, St.
Paul, Minnesota; Stanley Cross, Salt Lake
City; Jacob DeWaal, Salt Lake City; Gerald
M. Stout, Hurricane, Utah; Von L. Tenney,
Higley, Arizona.

Southern States: Dorothy Anderson, Salt
Lake City; Eldon McArthur, St. George,
Utah; Lenore McKinney, Salt Lake City;
Len R. Brady, Arimo, Idaho; Jay C. Eggles-
ton, Pocatello, Idaho.

Spanish American: Alvin Berthel Berge-
son, Blackfoot, Idaho; Joseph Davies, Jr.,
Tooele, Utah; Elizabeth Emma Divett, Salt
Lake City; Leona Mary Nicolayson, Salida,
California; Reed L. Walker, Nampa, Idaho;
Lee Jay Bailey, Blackfoot, Idaho.

Texas: George L. Clements, Sandy, Utah;
Afton Marie Grow, Coalville, Utah; Dale
H. Johnson, Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Western: Gladys Edith Stoker, Salt Lake
City.

Missionaries Released in July,
1942, and Others Not
Previously Reported

Brazilian: Theodore Nelson Benson,
Logan; Heber Reid Bird, Salt Lake City;
Frank B. Freeman, Brigham City; Lloyd
Rulon Hicken, Salt Lake City; Keith S.
586

THE CHURCH MOVES ON

Jones, Salt Lake City; Lawrence W. Nay-
lor, Salt Lake City; Theodore John Nee-
rings, Salt Lake City; W. Richard Nelson,
Ogden; Norton Dean Nixon, Salt Lake
City; Richard H. Stoddard, LeGrande,
Oregon; Jack Russell Tittensor, Redford,
Wyoming.

Canadian: Montell Bird, Salt Lake City;
Samuel C. Chandler, Idaho Falls, Idaho;
Victor K. Cummings, Salt Lake City; Sid-
ney James DeWitt, Long Beach, California;
Rex F. Hill, Kaysville, Utah; Roy Lester
Holman, Taber, Alberta, Canada; Odes L.
Record, Salt Lake City; Osborne N. Smith,
Duncan, Arizona.

Central States: Vaughn S. Drury, Pres-
ton, Idaho; Ferry C. Hadlock, Salt Lake
City; James Jackson Hill, Provo, Utah; Wil-
lard Kenneth Huish, Mesa, Arizona; Orien
H. Lamoreaux, Paragonah, Utah; Emil A.
F. Malmberg, Jr., Salt Lake City; Quentin
Jameson Taylor, Loa, Utah; Lova Tolman,
Murtaugh, Idaho; Lloyd Milton Turnbow,
Tabiona, Utah; Reed H. Walsh, Farming-
ton, Utah.

East Central States: Winsor Alma Ben-
nett— died in Mission Field May 25, 1942 —
Glendale, Arizona; Mary Maxine Bliss,
Hinckley, Utah; Beth Markham, Spanish
Fork; Orvin Dee Terry, Enterprise, Utah;
Merrill Ward Maxfleld, Pleasant Grove,
Utah.

Eastern States: Margaret Barton, Carey,
Idaho; Odessa Ford, Cedar City, Utah;
Cleora Kelsey, Salt Lake City; M. Clark
Newell, Mona, Utah; Weldon Douglas
Sorensen, Driggs, Idaho; Larene Taylor,
Ogden, Utah; Claire Van Dam, Salt Lake
City; Elizabeth Welker, Safford, Arizona;
Alvin L. White, Santa Monica, California;
Meade S. Steadman, Murray, Utah.

Hawaiian: Freeda Mathews, Panaca,
Nevada; Laura VanCott, Salt Lake City;
Roscoe C. Cox and Armanda Hannah Cox
(Mission President and wife), Ephraim,
Utah.

New England: Eldon E. Sill, Layton,
Utah.

North Central States: James William
Grant, LeGrande, Oregon; Norma A. Han-
sen, Salt Lake City; Willis L. Peterson,
Riverton, Utah; Orin H. Stutznegger, Salt
Lake City; Norman L. Taylor, El Paso,
Texas.

Northern States: Otho E. Bagwell, Man-
assa, Colorado; Leland R. Olsen, Logan;
Raymond Earl Smith, Logan.

Northern California: Pearl H. Cox, Shel-
ley, Idaho; Helen Marie Cutler, Salt Lake
City; Norma Marie Egan, Pocatello, Idaho;
Max W. Gentry, St. George, Utah; George
Wendell LeBaron, Santaquin, Utah, Kay
Perkins Lyman, Blanding, Utah; Charles L.
McBride, Victor, Idaho.

Southern States: Archie Lloyd Graham,
Salt Lake City; Harold Wallace Gunn, Los
Angeles, California; Scott Earl Hooton,
Phoenix, Arizona; Elvan E. Hunter, Salt
Lake City; William Julius Johnson, Phoe-
nix, Arizona; Jay M. Palmer, Charlo Lake,
Montana.

Spanish American: Ted B. Eason, El
Segundo, California; Ballif Howard Evans,
Oakland, California; Vearlee V. Howell,
Fish Haven, Idaho; Alfred L. Huish, Doug-
las, Arizona; Edward C. Kresser, Boise,
Idaho; Helen Margaret Buckley, LeGrande,
Oregon.

Texas: Fern Flake, Snowflake, Arizona;
Laura Larkin, Willard, Utah; Lamont Les-
ter Yates, Brigham City, Utah.

Western States: Lloyd Marion Abbott,
Yeadon, Pennsylvania;xCiyde William Hip-

well, Marriott, Utah; James Dewain Le-
Fevre, Panguitch, Utah; Irene Sue Mor-
rison, Santa Ana, California.

Excommunications

T/'athrine Unfried Jones, born Dec.
28, 1884; excommunicated May

17, 1942, in Elysian Park Ward, San
Fernando Stake.

Catherine Lucy Collinwood, excom-
municated April 16, 1942, in the Haw-
thorne Ward, Granite Stake.

Lorenzo Rangel, excommunicated
October 30, 1941, in the Piedras Ne-
gras Branch, Mexican Mission.

Leland George Taylor, born July 1 1 ,
1901; excommunicated May 29, 1942,
in the Ogden Nineteenth Ward, Weber
Stake,

Carl Eugene Chatel, born January
3, 1899, excommunicated July 13, 1942,
in the Denver First Ward, Denver
Stake, (deacon)

Robert Cecil Clements, born Decem-
ber 5, 1892, excommunicated June 10,
1942, in the Wisconsin District, North-
ern States Mission.

Pearl Gammon, excommunicated
July 12, 1942, in the Provo Second
Ward, Utah Stake.

Glen Melvin Hays, born July 20,
1909, excommunicated June 17, 1942,
in the Wisconsin District, Northern
States Mission.

Lucille Evelyn Hays Pederson, born
April 29, 1917, excommunicated June

18, 1942, in the Wisconsin District,
Northern States Mission.

Parley Kelo Willis, born April 24,
1902, excommunicated May 17, 1942,
in the Flagstaff Ward, Snowflake
Stake, (deacon)

Mission Excommunications

The following excommunications
from the mission fields have been pre-
viously unreported:

Belinda Arregui, born Aug. 11, 1891; ex-
communicated Jan. 23, 1941, in the Cordola
Branch, Argentine Mission.

Chloe Mae Crandall Beld, born Mar. 19,
1889; excommunicated July 21, 1941, in the
Northern States Mission.

Ellen Mary Maude Brown, born Feb. 16,
1889; excommunicated Jan. 8, 1940, in the
Handsworth Branch, British Mission.

Dennis Hy Clarence Brown, born May
29, 1916; excommunicated Jan. 8, 1940, in
the Handsworth Branch, British Mission.

Ida Burriss, born May 2, 1886; excom-
municated June 27, 1941, in the Northern
States Mission.

Martha Carr, born Mar. 23, 1865; excom-
municated Sept. 4, 1941, in the Evansville
Branch, Northern States Mission.

Lydia Loraze Clendenen, born Feb. 11,
1885; excommunicated Sept. 4, 1941, in the
Evansville Branch, Northern States Mis-
sion.

Edward Cline, born Nov. 13, 1867; ex-
communicated 1941, in the Hamilton Branch,
Northern States Mission.

Emma Elizabeth Cochran, excommuni-
cated Sept. 13, 1941, East Nebraska Dis-
trict, Western States Mission.

Frieda M. Czaia Cope, born July 22,
(Concluded on page 593)

illlelchizedeirPiiesthood

CONDUCTED BY THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE — JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH,
CHAIRMAN; JOHN A. WIDTSOE, JOSEPH F. MERRILL. CHARLES A. CALLIS, SYLVESTER Q. CANNON, AND HAROLD B. LEE

All Committees

/^Vf interest to all quorums is the ros-
^■^ ter of its membership which was
printed and distributed by the 220th
Quorum of Seventy, Yale Ward, Bon-
neville Stake. All the members are
listed with the following information:
name, address, home and office tele-
phone numbers, vocation and place of
employment, and Church activities.
This should be a stimulus to other quo-
rums to make similar lists for their
groups.

It is of practical value as it helps to
unify the quorum by identification.
Members become familiar with the
names and vocational interests of their
associates and extend the brotherhood
beyond the Sunday Priesthood period.

Beet Project

'"P'he Lethbridge Ward is having
marked success with an eighteen-
acre sugar beet project this season.
Members of the higher and lesser
Priesthood groups have banded to-
gether magnificently to do the hand
work, and the beets are the best in the
district. The project is on a welfare
basis and the quorums are really doing
the work. Numbers of the girls and
older sisters of the ward have reported
for work. Among the most enthusiastic
workers have been the Lethbridge Stake
presidency and ward bishopric. Elder
Job Llewellyn, a high priest, has headed
up the committee and he has received
splendid support. One night, more than
sixty were on the field. — Reported by
C. Frank Steele.

Agricultural Planning and
Farm Labor Problems

By C. Orval Stott

A gricultural planning has been car-
"^ ried on in Utah by farm organiza-
tions in cooperation with county, state,
and federal service agencies for a num-
ber of years, through what is known as
the State Land Use Planning Commit-
tee, whose chairman is Director Wil-
liam Peterson of the Agricultural Col-
lege Exension Service. Under this
state committee there are now func-
tioning in all counties of the state, coun-
ty planning committees. Our stake
agricultural advisory committees are
urged to cooperate in furthering plan-
ning work. We likewise urge all of
the farmers to become interested in this
movement as it is for their own well
being and betterment.

The state planning committee set up
a number of sub-committees. One vital
one is known as the state farm labor
sub-committee. This committee is com-

posed of representatives of the Farm
Bureau, Extension Service, Farm Se-
curity Administration, Forest Service,
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.
S. D. A., United States Employment
Service, Church Welfare, State Board
of Education, etc. The primary pur-
pose of this committee is one of sur-
veying farm labor needs, as well as
locating those who are seeking employ-
ment on the farms, and providing an
exchange place for these needs and
wants. To this end there has been
set up in Utah in cooperation with paid
personnel of the U. S. employment ser-
vice, farm placement bureaus in the
following cities: Logan, Brigham, Og-
den, Salt Lake City, Provo, Price, Rich-
field, Cedar City, St. George. These
are county offices, and counties adja-
cent to them may be serviced from
them.

Farmers are urged to list their labor
requirements with these labor offices,
as far in advance of their need as pos-
sible. Likewise, any and all men, wom-
en, boys, and girls, who will be avail-
able for farm work are requested to list
their names with their nearest farm
labor office. If the public generally will
cooperate in this movement, the
threatened farm labor shortage will be
largely overcome.

County agricultural agents will fur-
nish full information and answer all in-
quiries on the subject. This service is
free to the public.

NO LIQUOR-TOBACCO
COLUMN

Action — A Duty

By Joseph F. Merrill

Plsewhere in this issue of the Era
*-* (p. 572) please read Charles S.
Longacre's article, "Our Greatest Men-
ace in This War." You may also
have read in the Church Section of The
Deseret News, July 25 and August 1,
"Liquor and the War," an unanswer-
able article by President Cutten of Col-
gate University. Further in the Aug-
ust 15 Deseret News Church Section,
there was reprinted an article from
Signs of the Times written by Murl
Vance, entitled, "I Saw It Happen."

These articles are all loaded with
facts, logic, and good sense, making an
unanswerable case, demanding action.
What action, do you ask? It is that
you at least write a letter, sign a peti-
tion or otherwise contact your senators

and congressmen, requesting them to
do everything feasible to make Senate
bill S860 into a law without further
delay. This bill, if an enforced law,
would banish liquor and prostitution
from the places and surroundings where
the armed forces live and work. Bill
S860 re-enacts a law of the United
States from 1917 to 1933. Such a law
was necessary then. It is even more
necessary now. The lives of many of
our armed men, possibly even the win-
ning of the war, are dependent upon
such a law.

Why do we delay? Ask the rich and
powerful liquor men who by misrepre-
sentation and deceit secured repeal and
are opposing bill S860. If everyone
of you lets your senators know that
you want liquor banned from the im-
mediate reach of our armed forces it
will be done. "Do It Now. ' Duty
calls you. Protect our boys!

Canada and Liquor

President Reeder of the New Eng-
land Mission sent us a copy of the
Halifax Herald from which we learn
that the Canadian Temperance Feder-
ation is leading a vigorous campaign
against liquor consumption in Canada.
President Reeder says many newspa-
pers are supporting the campaign.

Among things the Federation is pub-
lishing are the following:

( 1 ) Liquor consumption in Canada is in-
creasing at an alarming rate.

(2) While the nation faces a crisis, the
liquor traffic thrives and its promoters are
enriched. [Examples are given.]

(3) The manufacture and consumption of
many useful articles is restricted — tea, cof-
fee, sugar, gasoline, rubber, etc., yet no re-
strictions are placed on the manufacture of
liquor.

(4) The government asks Canadian peo-
ple to eliminate luxuries, and yet the gov-
ernment does nothing to interfere with the
manufacture and consumption of liquor.

(5) The large overseas trade in liquor
takes shipping space sorely needed for food
and war supplies.

(6) Drink has been partly responsible
for Allied defeats and tragedies — at Hong
Kong, Singapore, Burma, Lybia, etc.

(7) The Federation ends its many state-
ments in an appeal to the Prime Minister
"in the name of our beloved country, for
the good of its citizens, for the sake of the
brave men who are offering their lives in
defense of freedom" to take speedy and ef-
fective action.

What Utah Paid For
Liquor and Tobacco

HpHESE are war times. Conditions are

abnormal, and the outlook is dark.

We are called upon to sacrifice, to

practice thrift, to buy bonds to the limit,

587

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

to give everything we can spare to the
war effort. Yet for many these are
prosperous times, judged by their in-
comes and the readiness ( and reckless-
ness) with which they spend their
money, especially for non-essentials like
liquor and tobacco. They seem to be
strangers to thrift and economy. Money
is coming easily and in larger amounts
than ever before. They act as if
"times will always be good." This is
indicated by the amounts spent in Utah
for liquor and tobacco.

We present herewith official figures,
giving the amounts spent during the
fiscal years 1941 and 1942, Tuly 1 to
June 30, respectively. These are
amounts paid for cigarettes (other
forms of tobacco not taxed in Utah),
for beer and for hard liquor, legally
sold. These figures were furnished by
the Utah State Liquor Control Com-
mission for hard liquor and by the State
Tax Commission for cigarettes and
beer.

Fiscal year figures:

1941 1942

Paid for cigarettes....$2,893,942 $3,481,422

Beer 3,910,030 4,420,292

Hard Liquor 4,568,080 5,820,127

TOTAL $11,372,052 $13,721,841

Drinking and Driving

n^HAT drinking drivers are potential
dangers at steering wheels is ad-
mitted everywhere. This is indicated
by figures released by the Utah Tax
Commission. During the fiscal year
1942 (July 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942)
this commission revoked and suspended
853 drivers' licenses. Of these 497 —
58% — were revoked for drunken driv-
ing. No figures are given for the amount
of damage done or the number of deaths
caused by these drinking drivers. Should
the law not prohibit anyone from driv-
ing who is under the influence of a
"drink or two?"

Our Greafest Menace

(Concluded from page 572)
cause Marshal Ney failed to make
his appearance as ordered on June
17. Retiring to his quarters the
night before, after imbibing too free-
ly of his favorite Burgundy, he "fell
into a deep and prolonged sleep, and
when he awoke ... he found himself
apparently unable to give orders or
to reach any decision." The result
was a day's delay, the arrival of
Blucher's troops, and a victory for
Wellington.

7V ccording to a press report, when
the Germans were closing in on
Paris in March, 1918, just before the
Battle of the Marne, "the French
had left a great supply of alcoholic
drink as the surest means of retard-
ing the German advance. Two whole
divisions were found drunk ready to
be cut down by the Allied troops. . . .
The wine-drenched Germans were
588

simply mowed down by the enemy
machine guns. . . . The spearhead
of the advance suddenly broke. No
one could tell why." Professor Hans
Schmidt of Helle, an officer on the
west front, gave the answer. "If
we had not found alcohol we should
have advanced farther than the
March offensive. You are right in
laying your finger on this painful
wound," he wrote to the crown
prince.

In 1 925 the famous French editor,
Payot, wrote words of warning to
the people of France, which, if heed-
ed, undoubtedly would have saved
their country from humiliation and
defeat in 1940. He said: "Alcohol-
ism, under the indifferent eyes of the
authorities, is indeed destroying our

nation I solemnly affirm that from

now on one might inscribe on the
windows of all public houses in
France these fateful words, Finis
Galliae."

Let the officers of the American
Army and Navy pay solemn heed to
the following statement issued by
General Petain: "Our soldiers were
drunk and could not fight. Since the
victory of World War I the spirit
of pleasure, of riotous living, and
drinking, has prevailed over the
spirit of sacrifice." It has been said
that eighteen percent of the French
soldiers from the Maginot Line were
in hospitals suffering from delirium
tremens at the time of the invasion.
As General Petain admitted, "Al-
coholism was the chief cause of the
French armies' moral collapse and
the worst of France's four greatest
problems."

Well might Americans ask why
were not the officers and the men
"on the alert" at Pearl Harbor on
that fateful morning of December
7, 1941, The fact that, following
the disaster, all saloons were closed
and the sale of all intoxicating bev-
erages was immediately prohibited

to officers, soldiers, and sailors alike,
may explain why they were not "on
the alert." Would it not have been
better to lock the door before the
horse was stolen? The enemy knew
what was going on at Pearl Harbor
and took advantage of it.

Yet, in spite of what liquor has
done to the armies of the nations of
the past, America so far has failed
to heed history's warnings concern-
ing this greatest of all enemies in
time of war. We allow the liquor
dealers to ply their trade unmolested.
We permit them to use hundreds of
millions of pounds of sugar in liquor.
We allow the liquor traffickers to
exploit and debauch our soldier boys
in the military camps, without plac-
ing restrictions upon the brewers.

It is high time that the people who
have the welfare of their boys and
the honor of their country at heart
should do something about this ter-
rible enemy within our borders. Since
the majority of the present Congress
have refused to do anything about
prescribing a remedy or enacting
legislation to banish liquor from the
military camps, and the areas sur-
rounding the camps, let us as individ-
ual Americans do something about
it. We have the power in our hands,
and our effective weapon is the ballot
at the coming November election.
The ballot box can and should settle
this issue. Vote only for the candi-
dates for seats in Congress who are
definitely pledged to banish liquor
and drive vice out of the Army
camps, and from the areas surround-
ing them, as was done in World
War I.

Nations which in the past have
failed to take such precautions have
gone down to ruin and oblivion
through the curse of drink, which
demoralized their armies and their
people. Only an awakened public
conscience will save our nation from
a similar fate.

Melchizedek Priesthood Outline of Study, October, 1942

Text: Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

LESSON 31

A Personal Devil

Read Teachings of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, pp. 161-162, 187, 189, 214, 225-227,
241, 297-298, 306, 357-358, 365; D. & C.
10:43; 19:3; 29:28-29, 36-39; 76:25-28;
Moses 4:1-4; Abr. 3:27-28; Isa. 14:12; 2
Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; Rev. 12:3-4, 7-9, 12;
20:2-3; 1 Nephi 15:29; 2:17-18; 2 Nephi
9:8-9, 16; 28:21-22; Mos. 16:3, 5; 26:27; 3
Nephi 9:2; 11:29; 21:10; 18:15; Alma 12:4;
48:17; Hel. 3:29.

1. Lucifer's rebellion (357)

a. Lucifer, a son of the morning (D.
& C. 76:26-27; Isa. 14:12)

b. An angel of God in authority in the

presence of God (D. & C. 76:25; 2
Nephi 9:8)
c. Sought that which was evil before
God (2 Nephi 2:17) and to excel
(297)
(1) Satan's plan (Moses 4:1-3)

(a) I will be Thy son

(b) I will redeem all mankind,
that one soul shall not be
lost

(d) Sought to destroy the
agency of man

(e) Sought God's own power
(Cf. D. & C. 29:36)

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

(f) He stood up as a savior
(357)
(2) Contention in heaven

(a) Jesus said certain souls
would not be saved

(b) Lucifer said he would save
them all, and laid his plans
before the grand council

(d) Devil angry, rose in rebel-
lion against God (357)

d. War in heaven (Rev. 12:3-4, 7-9,
12)

( 1 ) Rebelled against the Only Be-
gotten Son Whom the rather
loved

(2) Sought to take the kingdom of
God. (D. & C. 76:28)

(3) Became an enemy of God
(Mosiah 16:5)

(4) Kept not his first estate (Abr.
3:27-28; Jude 1:6)

(5) Many followed after him — a
third part of the hosts of
heaven (D. & C. 29:36)

(6) They were thrust down, and
thus came the devil and his
angels (357, verse 37)

2. Punishment of Satan and his angels
(297-298)

a. Cast down from the presence of
God (D. & C. 76:25)

b. He and his angels cast out into the
earth (Rev. 12:8) and to hell (2
Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6)

c. Called Perdition, for the heavens
wept over him (D. & C. 76:26)

d. Greatness of his punishment is that
he shall not have a body like men
(297, 306)

( 1 ) Those with a body have pow-
er over those who have not

(2) He seeks to thwart decree of
God by taking possession of a
stolen body

(3) Always liable to be turned out

e. Became Satan, that old serpent —
even the devil (D. 6 C. 76:28; 2
Nephi 2:18)

f. Became miserable forever, seeking
the misery of all mankind

g. Everlasting fire prepared for the
devil and his angels (Mos. 26:27;
D. & C. 29:28-29; 1 Nephi 15:29)

(1) To remain filthy still

(2) Their torment as a lake of fire
and brimstone, whose flame
ascendeth up forever and ever,
and has no end (2 Nephi 9: 16)

(3) Place prepared for them which
is hell (D. 6C. 29:38)

h. To be bound a thousand years and
cast into bottomless pit (Rev. 20:2-

(1) During that period to deceive
nations no more

(2) Then loosed for a little season

Discuss:

1. Can Satan compel any person to do
evil?

2. In heaven, what was the great sin of
Lucifer?

LESSON 32

A Personal Devil (Continued)

3. The author of all evil

a. All evil cometh from the devil
(Moroni 7:12)

b. Devil an enemy of God and fighteth
against Him

c. Inviteth and enticeth to sin, and to
do evil

d. Persuadeth no man to do good, no
not one, neither do his angels (Mor-
oni 7:17)

e. Father of all lies, to deceive and to
blind men, and to lead them cap-
tive at his will (Moses 4:4; 2 Nephi
9:9)

f. Cause of all mankind becoming
carnal, sensual, and devilish and
subjecting themselves to the devil
(Mos. 16:3)

g. Father of contention — stirreth up
the hearts of men to contend with
anger (3 Nephi 11:29)

h. The devil laugheth and his angels
rejoice over those slain because of
iniquity and abominations (3 Nephi
9:2) : his spirit that of hate, blood-
shed, murder (358)

i. Maketh war with the Saints and
overcometh many (D. & C. 76:28)
4. The great tempter

a. Subtlety of the devil, to lie and to
deceive the people (225; Alma 12:4;
Hel. 3:29)

b. Stirreth up the children of men unto
secret combinations of murder and
all manner of secret works of dark-
ness (2 Nephi 9:9)

c. Devil may appear as an angel of
light (162, 214:2 Nephi 9:9)

d. He is an orator, and is powerful
(162)

e. He can speak in tongues

f. Can tempt all classes and has great
power to deceive (227)

g. Lying spirits are going forth in
the earth

h. Devil uses his greatest efforts to
trap the Saints (161)

(1) Always sets up his kingdom
in opposition to the kingdom of
God (365)

(2) Self-righteousness a doctrine of
the devil to retard the human
mind (341)

(a) Flatters us we are very
righteous

(b) Pacifies and lulls into a
sense of carnal security (2
Nephi 28:21-22)

(d) Flattereth and telleth them
there is no hell

(e) I am no devil, for there is
none

(f) Thus the devil cheateth
their souls and leadeth
them carefully down to
hell

(g) Grasps them with his
awful chains, whence
there is no deliverance

i. He shall rage in the hearts of the
children of men and stir to anger
against that which is good (161; 2
Nephi 28:21; Rev. 12:12)
5. Overcoming evil

a. All men have power to resist evil
(189)

b. As well might the devil seek to de-
throne Jehovah as overthrow an in-
nocent soul that resists everything
which is evil (226)

c. Salvation of Jesus Christ wrought
out that all men might triumph over
the devil (357)

d. God, men, and angels will not con-
demn those that resist all evil

e. The Lord has power to the destroy-
ing of Satan and his works at the
end of the world, and the last great
day of judgment (D. & C. 19:3)

f. Wisdom of God greater than the
cunning of the devil (3 Nephi
21:10; D. & C. 10:43)

g. Pray always, lest ye be tempted of
the devil and led captive (3 Nephi
18:15)

h. Devil has no power over hearts of

the righteous (Alma 48:17)
i. Can curb him only by being humbic
j. Need for gift of discerning spirits
k. Salvation is to triumph over all

enemies in this world, and over all

evil spirits in the world to come

(297)
1. Devil must tempt men or they could

not be agents unto themselves (D.

& C. 29:39; 187)

Discuss :

1. Enumerate evils which came from the
devil.

2. What are some favorite wiles of
Satan in enticing mankind to wickedness?

LESSON 33

The Sin of Cain and Sons of Perdition

Read Teachings of the Prophet Joseph
Smith, pp. 356-358, 361, 24, 58, 156, 169,
301, 361; Moses 5:13-41; 7:8, 22; Abr. 1:25-
27; D. 6 C. 29:28-30, 41; 76:30-39, 43-48;
84:41; Way to Perfection, pp. 110-111;
Heb. 11:4; Jacob 3:11; Mos. 16:5; 2 Nephi
9:8-9; Alma 12:16-18; 34:35; Hel. 3:29; Cf.
John 17:12; 2 Thess. 2:3-4; 3 Nephi 27:32;

29:7-

1. Cain gloried in his wickedness (Moses

5:13-35)

a. Satan leads astray sons and daugh-
ters of Adam

b. They became carnal, sensual, and
devilish

c. Cain disappoints hopes of his par-
ents

d. Loved Satan more than God

e. Obeyed Satan's command to make
offering unto the Lord

f. His offering not accepted

(1) Not done in faith:
Whatsoever is not of faith, is
sin (58)

(2) Sacrifice offered in unright-
eousness (169)

(3) Abel offered unto God a more
excellent sacrifice (Heb. 11:4)

g. Promised great blessings by the
Lord if he would do well

h. Solemnly warned of curse to fol-
low unrighteousness

i. Cain rejected the greater counsel of
God

j. Taught by Satan of secret oath-
bound combination to murder and
get gain

k. Became Master Mahan, and gloried
in his wickedness

1. Coveted his brother's flocks

m. Slew Abel, and gloried in what he
had done

2. Curse upon Cain and his posterity
(Moses 5:24-25, 36-41; Cf. Abr. 1:25-
27; Way to Perfection, pp. 1 10-1 11 )

a. Cain sinned against the light, and
chose knowingly

b. Delivered over to the desires of
Satan

c. Called Perdition

d. To rule over Satan

e. The father of his lies

f. Secret abominations had from Cain

g. Forever a fugitive and a vagabound
in the earth

h. Shut out from the face of the Lord
i, Mark of a black skin set upon Cain

(Cf. Moses 7:8, 22)
j. Curse continued through his line-
age

(1) The father of an inferior race
of servants

(2) They are denied the privilege
of the Priesthood and the ful-
ness of gospel blessings

Discuss :

1. Who only are in a position to com-
mit the unpardonable sin?

589

THEWDRKDFTHE SEyEnTY

JhsL Qallbu^ d$* JPul Sswsunh^

^Jever before has the calling of the seventies been so
deeply and comprehensively felt as it is today. Since
the organization of the "grand evangelical army of the
Church," as one writer expresses it, to the present day,
hundreds, yea, thousands, of seventies have gone into every
part of the world to carry the restored gospel. The record
of the devotion, heroism, sacrifice, of these missionaries
of Israel who have gone into the wilderness that they might
save the souls of men, is unsurpassed. The dignity of the
work has been in keeping with its importance. Brethren
holding office in all the Melchizedek Priesthood organiza-
tions have shared in this call of missionary endeavor.
They, with the seventies, have been chosen to go "into
all the earth" to preach the "fulness of the gospel," and
gather Latter-day Israel from among the nations.

The Prophet Joseph Smith has written in the one hun-
dred seventh section of the Doctrine and Covenants, these
words :

"The Seventy are also called to preach the gos-
pel, and to be especial witnesses unto the Gentiles
and in all the world." (D. & C. 107:25)

The Latter-day work, engaged in by all the quorums of
the Priesthood, is evidence of its divine character and mis-
sion. It is the work to which all the world must look, and
for this reason, it grows in power and importance. Our
active ministry today is taking place in a period of great
mental disturbance, and we are facing problems that have
never been so momentous and direful as they are at present.
We must then have purpose as never before. With pur-
pose, we must have vision, and for the work of God to
progress, it must have the cooperation of all organizations
of the Church and the presidencies of stakes and bishops
of wards. Whatever achievements are attained are, by
their very nature, a common possession. They are in-
creased by sharing, for the success of any organization of
the Priesthood contributes to the life of all the others.

The duties of the members of every Priesthood quorum
have been defined by the revelations of the Prophet Joseph
Smith. While the respective offices of the Priesthood re-
quire study and a well defined performance of duties, they
all make for a common cause and a closer association. The
unifying motive is to teach the gospel to all peoples. As
in every progressive movement in life, cooperation of groups
is a vital force, and this the Church has taught from its
inception. The Seventies constitute a "Church organiza-
tion," in the sense that they are directly under the super-
590

vision of the First Council of the Seventy who work under
the direction of the Quorum of the Twelve. In the super-
vision of the quorums in local affairs, however, stake presi-
dents have been given the responsibility of collaborating
with the First Council in helping the seventies quorums to
keep organized and active. Thus the basis for a complete
unity of understanding and harmony of action has been
established.

What the world needs today more than anything else is
a renewed faith in the living God and Jesus Christ. This
knowledge is to come through these personal witnesses
who have prepared their hearts and minds to bear testimony
of the restoration of the gospel and the Priesthood of God.
This is the imparting of a new purpose, for it is the giving
of life; life for the heart, the conscience, the will: the life
that makes a new man.

The Lord has declared His great purpose: "For behold,
this is my work and my glory — to bring to pass the im-
mortality and eternal life of man." (Moses 1 :39) The expec-
tation cherished by the missionaries in the early days of the
Church was in keeping with their instructions, and they saw
in the newly revealed word, God's message of salvation to
the world. They had the divine testimony that it would meet
every man's spiritual wants, and protect and guide his life.
This was their faith, and it was soon justified as thousands
of men, women, and children found their way to the truth.
As in the past, there was little hesitation, so in the future,
there must be a still deeper spirit to lead people into right
and to recognize whatever truth is found, and to add to it
more truth, higher truth, the TRUTH.

We who are working in the cause of God have inherited
something of its method and spirit. It is in our blood, our
nerves, our habits of thought and work. "In our idea of
God, He is a very present help, working out the counsel
of His own will," wrote the poet Milton. If the presence
of the spirit of the Holy Priesthood is in our work, nothing
can be done among men, among nations, that is not tributary
to them.

There never was a time larger with spiritual promise
than the present. There never was a time when people were
more eager to liberate the human spirit for its next step
forward in the arduous and inspiring journey toward per-
fection and happiness. The gospel is concerned with life,
with the whole of it, and more than ever, the seventies of
the Church must be fellow-workers with God in the realiza-
tion of its aims. — L. E. Y.

EChp

TWonitfPriesthooil

CONDUCTED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC. EDITED BY LEE A. PALMER.

THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD

Thirtieth in a series of articles
written by the late Elder Orson F.
Whitney of the Council of the
Twelve. Published originally in
"The Contributor."

'T'he bishopric in Kirtland, in 1836, the
year the temple was dedicated, was
composed of the following: Newel K.
Whitney, bishop, Reynolds Cahoon
and Hyrum Smith, counselors. The last
named, having been appointed in Janu-
ary of that year to the presidency of the
high council, Vinson Knight was or-
dained a high priest by Bishop Whitney
and set apart as one of the counselors
to fill the vacancy thus created. During
the same month William Cowdery was
appointed president over the priests of
the Aaronic Priesthood in Kirtland,
Oliver Olney to preside over the teach-
ers, and Ira Bond to preside over the
deacons' quorum. These brethren were
ordained and set apart by Bishop Whit-
ney.

In September, 1837, the Bishop of
Kirtland, having been directed by re-
velation to travel through the eastern
cities, preaching and prophesying, Wil-
liam Marks was appointed bishop's
agent to transact the business of that
office in the absence of Bishop Whit-
ney. Prior to leaving Kirtland, the
bishop with his counselors issued a
lengthy epistle to the Saints scattered
abroad, appealing to them for assistance
in the work of building up Zion, and
urging them to gather up their gold and
silver and means of various kinds and
impart liberally to the Lord's cause.

The Missouri Saints, in the meantime,
were gathering in force to Far West. At
a conference of the Church held there on
November 7, 1837, and attended by the
First Presidency, the various quorums of
the Priesthood, which had been decimated

by apostasy, excommunication and other
causes, were reorganized and the vacancies
in them filled. Edward Partridge was un-
animously sustained as bishop of the Church
in that land, and nominated for his coun-
selors, Isaac Morley and Titus Billings.
John Corrill, formerly a counselor to Bish-
op Partridge, was appointed keeper of the
Lord's storehouse, in lieu of A. S. Gilbert.

The spirit of persecution next showed
itself in Kirtland. Some of the leading men
of the Church apostatized and went hand
and glove with mobocrats and enemies who
were seeking the life of Joseph the Prophet,
and those who remained true to him and
the religion of Jesus Christ. Joseph Smith,
Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young, and others,
were forced to flee for their lives, and were
followed for hundreds of miles by armed
mobocrats, eager to slay them. The main
body of the Saints followed in an exodus
to Missouri, and thus was fulfilled the re-
moval of the Church from Kirtland, fore-
shadowed in a revelation already repro-
duced.

But the indomitable spirit of God's
prophet was not to be subdued. He next
sought out an asylum for the Saints who
were en route from Kirtland, and we next
hear of the organization of the stake of
Adam-ondi-Ahman, in Davies County,
Missouri. The central point was called
Spring Hill by the people of that neighbor-
hood, but Joseph rechristened it Adam-ondi-
Ahman, having been informed by the Lord
that it was the identical spot where Adam,
the father of the human family, would
come to visit his people in the last days,
in other words, where the Ancient of Days
would sit, as foretold by the Prophet Daniel.
This fact was made known on the nine-
teenth of May, 1838.

The Stake of Adam-ondi-Ahman was or-
ganized on June 28th of that year, and by
the unanimous voice of the conference
there assembled, Vinson Knight was chosen
Bishop pro rem. This action was prelim-
inary to the calling of Bishop Newel K.
Whitney, who was then in Kirtland, to as-
sume that position.

At Far West, on the eighth of July, en-
suing, the question of tithing coming up
for consideration, the Prophet Joseph ad-
dressed the Lord in these words:

FIVE BROTHERS ACTIVE IN
AARONIC PRIESTHOOD,
SUNDAY SCHOOL, AND
Y. M. M. I. A. ACTIVITIES

EBBShhm9u^bI9BS

Delbert, Ray, Grant, Morris, and Darwin Neilson of the
Twin Falls Second Ward, Twin Falls Stake, set a splendid
example in following the complete Church course prescribed
for young men. They are brothers and have established
unusual records in Aaronic Priesthood, Sunday School,
and Y. M. M. I. A. activities. They are the sons of
Mildred Neilson.

President Percy L. Lawrence of the Twin Falls Stake
Presidency writes, "It has been a source of inspiration
to see all five of these fine young men serving many times
together at the sacrament table in an official capacity —
two as priests, one as a teacher, and two as deacons."

In addition to their Priesthood activities, these young
men have been faithful in Sunday School, always on hand
to exercise the Priesthood when called upon. Their Boy
Scout activities include Patrol leadership, Troop Scribe,
with Delbert now serving as Assistant Scoutmaster.

"O Lord! Show unto thy servants how
much thou requirest of the properties of thy
people for a Tithing?"

To this the Lord vouchsafed the follow-
ing answer:

"Verily thus saith the Lord, I require
all their surplus property to be put into the
hands of the Bishop of my Church of
Zion, for the building of mine house, and
for the laying of the foundation of Zion,

(Continued on page 595)

ALBERTA STAKE CELEBRATES
From far and wide they came for a full and most unusual day commem-
orating the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. Deacons, teachers, and
priests, and their stake and ward leaders are shown as they spent the
forenoon of May 23 in a general clean-up project on the grounds surrounding
the newly constructed Alberta Stake Social Center Building.

After lunch an appropriate program was enjoyed, with Stake President
Edward J. Wood recounting interesting missionary experiences.

RESTORATION OF AARONIC PRIESTHOOD

Stake Aaronic Priesthood Chairman J. Y. Card writes: "After the program
we went to the pioneer cairn where the first pioneers camped at Cardston,
June 3, 1SS7. A ceremony introducing two of the remaining six original
pioneers was held.

"After this brief ceremony the boys went to the town square and played
horseshoe and Softball, thus ending a very successful and happy pilgrimage
for the Aaronic Priesthood of the Alberta Stake."

591

SUlarcTTe aching

CONDUCTED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC. EDITED BY LEE A. PALMER.

RECORD OF 100 PERCENT
WARD TEACHING FOR 28
YEARS REPORTED

MANTUA WARD TEACHERS, BOX ELDER STAKE

Left to right, front row: Lucius Hansen, Christian
M. Petersen, Andrew M. Jensen, Nels C. Jeppsen, Nels
P. Jeppsen, Jr., Richard Andersen, Max Ferguson.

Second row: John Rasmussen, Martin Rasmussen, All-
ston Jensen, Roy Olsen, Ernest Johnson, Ephraim Schow,
Reed Hansen.

Back row: Bishop Z. Y. Erekson, Arnold Nelson, Her-
man Jeppsen, Austin Larsen, ward clerk, Ray Jeppsen.

The following active teachers were absent when the
picture was taken: Lynn Hailing, LaVar Jensen, Wallace
Jeppsen, Earl Riggs, Scott Olsen, Clark Rasmussen,
Aaron Jensen, Ureal Jacobsen, and Lloyd Keller.

A report from former Bishop Z. Y.
"** Erekson of the Mantua Ward, Box
Elder Stake, indicates that this ward
has established a one hundred percent
ward teaching record extending over
the past twenty-eight years. There are
seventy-five families of record in the
ward with a population of three hun-
dred twenty-one.

During the twenty-eight-year period,
the average attendance at the monthly
ward teachers report meeting has been
eighteen. With few exceptions, a writ-
ten report covering their assignments
and activities has been handed to the
bishop each month by the teachers as
suggested by the Presiding Bishopric.

Those serving as ward teachers dur-
ing the twenty-eight years total one
hundred eight with fifty-seven of this
number still living in the ward.

Bishop Erekson reported, "These
brethren have been so willing and
faithful in their duty that it has not
been necessary to set up elaborate su-
pervisory machinery. The two coun-
selors in the bishopric have done all the
supervising required. In fact it is rare
that they have to do more than give the
teachers their assignments at the begin-
ning of each year."

A review of the attendance at sacra-
ment meeting during the past year re-
veals a twenty-six percent average for
Mantua Ward compared with an all-
Church average of seventeen percent.
Bishop Erekson gives much of this
credit to efficient ward teaching.

This remarkable record has been es-
tablished during the administrations of
592

WARD TEACHERS

A nd if any man among you be strong in the Spirit, let him take with him
•**■ him that is weak, that he may be edified in all meekness, that he may
become strong also.

Therefore, take with you those who are ordained unto the lesser priest-
hood... . (D. & C. 84:106, 107)

Suggestions For Ward Teachers

Teachers should be actively interested in their people. They should
visit them in times of illness and death. They should be aware of the spir-
itual, physical, and temporal status of their people to such an extent that
distress and want may be reported at once, and appropriate assistance to
the worthy be provided without delay.

In keeping with the duties assigned to teachers by revelation, it is
highly appropriate, where making a formal visit, to ask each member of the
family questions containing the following import :

1. Are you in harmony —

a. With your neighbors and associates?

b. With ward, stake, and General Authorities of the Church?

2. Are you attending to your Church duties —

a. As a member

Attending meeting, fasting once each month and paying fast offering,
paying tithing, and participating in ward social functions?

b. As an officer

Setting proper example, attending council meetings, etc.?

3. Are you attending to secret and family prayers?

U)ahcL J&achoA&l VYlMAaqsi, Odabsut., 1%2

THE STRANGER WITHIN OUR GATES

HpROOPS and civilians are pouring into our various communities or nearby
metropolitan centers by the thousands. With them they may be ex-
pected to bring their own ideas of community, social, and religious life.
Their habits, customs, likes, and dislikes will now become an integral part
of their new surroundings and associations.

It is well to recognize, however, that while they are bringing their in-
fluence to bear upon us, we, likewise, are making impressions upon them.
In this duel of influences, which will be the victor? Shall we be persuaded
to their ideas or will they learn to appreciate our way of life?

When this great struggle is over and we again adjust ourselves to
normal life will those who have had contact with members of the Church
be missionaries in defense of our ideals or parade before the world our per-
sonal indifference and disobedience to the gospel standards? Will even one
among them falter in his search for truth because of our actions?

Thousands of persons who have never experienced this contact before,
will now be exposed to the Church, through its membership. What will
they think or say of the Church because of their experiences with us?

Membership in the Church imposes a tremendous responsibility. We
have covenanted with God that we will live by His word. What the
stranger sees us do will live longer in his memory than that which he hears
us say. Actions speak louder than words.

If Latter-day Saints will but live close to God, teaching the gospel
through their righteous lives, it is safe to assume that the stranger .within
our gates will at least appreciate our associations and admire the standards
and ideals of the Church. To so live is our bounden duty.

The spirit of the gospel suggests that all be made welcome. Loyalty
demands that "your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16.)

Bishop Peter C. Johnson, Bishop Con-
rad Jeppsen, and Bishop Zelph Y. Erek-
son. Since this report, Newell Jensen
Larsen has been sustained as the new
bishop of Mantua Ward. Bishop Lar-
sen will undoubtedly continue this un-
broken record in ward teaching acti-
vities.

Counselors to these bishops who have
helped in this commendable activity re-
cord include Alexander A. Larsen,
Marion M. Jensen, N. P. Jeppsen, Jr.,
Peter Rasmussen, Wilford Hailing,
Richard J. Andersen, John Rasmussen,
Lucius Hansen, Ray Jeppsen, and Clif-
ford Hansen.

CENTURY OLD TURTLE BE-
COMES GENEALOGICAL
RECORD

Elder Richard L. Gunn

Genealogical Chairman of the

Hawaiian Mission

Ceveral years ago Richard L. Gunn
*-* of Yalecrest Ward, Bonneville
Stake, was an outstanding junior gene-
alogist and compiled an excellent Book
of Remembrance. In library research
he traced along many lines of his an-
cestry. He is now mission genealogical
chairman of the Hawaiian Mission. In
connection with directing temple and
genealogical activities in that mission,
he met with the accompanying interest-
ing experience:

A "leaf" from the family album of John
Akiona's family would surprise a good
many genealogical enthusiasts of the
Church. These particular "pages" aren't
bound in conventional family group binders
but hang proudly on the walls of his home
at Laupahoehoe, Hawaii.

Strange as it may seem, Brother Akiona
first found his genealogical record book
swimming in the clear waters bordering
sunny Hawaii, and with the traditional skill
of Hawaii's native sons, captured his prize
and landed it. Many a Hawaiian table
has been graced with the delicious meat of
the giant turtles found in Pacific waters, but
Brother Akiona had laid further plans for
his turtle. He didn't say how agreeable
the turtle was in finding his future was to
be linked with genealogy, but his careful

Priests' Dwellings in
Teotihuacan

( Concluded from page 549 )
In the better preserved dwellings the
walls are still decorated with frescos
representing ceremonies, gods, and
country scenes. They are precious
documents, for they are actual paint-
ings of Indian life well over a thousand
years old.

A fresco, which was discovered at
the close of the last century and which
has since disappeared, presents a Teoti-
huacan ceremonial scene. To the
right and left are two idols representing
native deities. Priests are shown in
acts of adoration before the idols. The
curved symbol at the mouth of various
priests is an indication of song or flow-
ery speech.

Important additional frescos have re-
cently been discovered, which will soon
be interpreted and published by leading
Mexican archeologists.

The Church Moves On

{Continued from page 586)
1910; excommunicated Jan. 13, 1941, in the
South Illinois District, Northern States Mis-
sion.

Arthur Lee Crandall, born May 17, 1920;

■ ■'■„::. / :.. . ■■ . . . - :. . ... . ■::;;-::,V;.;

■:.:. . ■ ■ ■ : :

JOHN AKIONA AND HIS DAUGHTER FLORENCE

cleaning and polishing made Mr. Turtle's
back a shiny record chart upon which the
names of the Akiona family have been in-
scribed. Later a second "page" followed,
estimated to be about one hundred years in
age.

A veteran member of the Church, John
Akiona has gained a great respect for the
temple and enjoys his studies in mookuauhau
(genealogy). He is pictured here with his
daughter, Florence, holding his family re-
cord, an example to other Latter-day Saints
in building careful records.

UNIQUE BABY
ANNOUNCEMENT

Elder Richard L. Gunn
fTrHE other day one of our genealogical
members forwarded to me an an-
nouncement of the arrival of a new

excommunicated July 21, 1941, in the South
Indiana District, Northern States Mission.

Chester Joseph Crandall, born Sept. 7,
1895; excommunicated July 21, 1941, in the
South Indiana District, Northern States
Mission.

Robert Laurence Cummings, born Feb.
25, 1917; (seventy) excommunicated 1941,
in the Kaui Branch, Japanese Mission.

William C. Deichmiller, born Apr. 8,
1876; excommunicated July 24, 1941, in the
South Illinois District, Northern States Mis-
sion.

Nina W. Sims De Young, born Oct. 22,
1902; excommunicated Jan. 29, 1941, in the
Rapids Branch, Northern States Mission.

Edith Oakley Dobell, born Apr. 26, 1899;
excommunicated Jan. 8, 1940, in the Hands-
worth Branch, British Mission.

Virginia Miller Green, born Dec. 1, 1914;
excommunicated Oct. 1, 1941, in the Chi-
nook Branch, Northwestern States Mission.

China M. Guildner, born Feb. 23, 1888;
excommunicated June 26, 1941, in the Pen-
chatoula Branch, Texas Mission.

Oscar William Guildner, born Apr. 20,
1905; excommunicated June 26, 1941, in the
Hammond Branch, Texas Mission.

Henry James Harmon, born Nov. 19,
1878; (high priest) excommunicated Sept.

28, 1941, in the Vaughn Branch, North-
western States Mission.

Margaret Leola Bird Harris, born Oct.

29, 1915; excommunicated Oct. 20, 1941,
in the Terre Haute Branch, Northern States
Mission.

Eugene Houston Henegar, born Apr. 19,
1902; (elder) excommunicated Dec. 12,

baby. I found it to be of great interest.
It was in the form of a six-generation
pedigree chart beginning on line one
with Fay Hopkins Murray, born May
3, 1942; the daughter of Ralph Ham-
lin Murray and Lila Fancher. The
chart gives the names and identifica-
tion of fifty-eight direct ancestors of
the new-born son. (It is interesting to
note that many of them in the earliest
generation on the chart connect with
pedigrees in the Library of the Gene-
alogical Society of Utah.)

1941, in the West Oklahoma District, Cen-
tral States Mission.

Elsie Reed Henegar, born Aug. 18, 1914;
excommunicated Oct. 12, 1941, in the West
Oklahoma District, Central States Mission.

E. G. Dunn Hoffman, born Sept. 25, 1912;
excommunicated Mar. 28, 1941, in the East
Michigan District, Northern States Mission.

Claricy Flynn Hubbs, born Feb. 10, 1894;
excommunicated Jan. 13, 1941, in the South
Illinois District, Northern States Mission.

M. L. F. Hunt, born Dec. 11, 1910; ex-
communicated Apr. 16, 1941, in the Rock-
ford Branch, Northern States Mission.

Beatrice Inskup, born Jan. 19, 1905; ex-
communicated June 12, 1941, in the Peoria
Branch, Northern States Mission.

Lorene Edna Kalinski, born Sept. 22,
1913; excommunicated Sept. 11, 1941, in
the South Illinois District, Northern States
Mission.

Mary E. Lambton, born Feb. 4, 1919; ex-
communicated June 26, 1941, in the Evans-
ville Branch, Northern States Mission.

Stewart Davis Livingston, born June 8,
1907; excommunicated Jan. 9, 1941, in the
York Branch, Eastern States Mission.

Andalina Lujan, born Mar. 10, 1885; ex-
communicated July 15, 1941, in the Santa
Fe Branch, Argentine Mission.

Pedro Martinez, born Oct. 9, 1905; ex-
communicated 1941, in the San Pedro
Branch, Mexican Mission.

Jessie M. S. Mclntyre, born May 27,
1900; excommunicated Jan. 8, 1941, in the
Evansville Branch, Northern States Mis-
sion.

Moirie Alford Measley, born Apr. 27,
{Concluded on page 604)

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mutual TTkiAa^A.

M. I. A. READING COURSE
BOOKS
1942-1943

Executives

In the Gospel Net

Dr. John A. Widtsoe

Special Interest

Gospel Standards

President Heber J. Grant

In the Gospel Net

Dr. John A. Widtsoe

M Men-Gleaners
/ Dare You

William H. Danforth

M Men

Missionary Experiences

Edited by Preston Nibley

Gleaners
Elizabeth England's Modern Queen
Cornelia Spencer

Explorers

Missionary Experiences

Edited by Preston Nibley

Juniors
Maud

Edited by Richard Lee Strout

Scouts
Lincoln

Lucy F. Madison

Bee-Hive Girls
Clara Barton

Mildred M. Pace

M. I. A. Prepares
Stage Guide

"\TS7ritten to encourage drama in the
vv twelve hundred fifty Mutual Im-
provement Associations throughout the
Church A Brief Manual of Theater
Arts by Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, head of
the Brigham Young University speech
department, has been published by the
M. I. A. general boards.

The manual contains simplified direc-
tions on lighting, arrangement, direct-
ing, casting, makeup, and scenery.
Simultaneous with its release is the
printing of the fourteenth edition of the
M. /. A. Book of Plays.

M. I. A. Notes

irpHiRTY members of the South Eight-
eenth Ward, Ensign Stake, Mu-
tuals climbed historic Ensign Peak the
evening of July 21, to hear stories of
pioneer life told by Elder George Albert
Smith of the Council of the Twelve,
and official of the Utah Pioneer Trails
and Landmarks Association.

Reed Pope and Margaret Little were
in charge of the outing.

1. The Gold and Green Ball held in Great Falls,
Montana.

2. "The Queen's Court" Gold and Green Ball held
in Chicago Stake.

3. Miss Arlene Redd, an enthusiastic Bee- Hive
girl of Arlington Ward, Los Angeles Stake,
with her brood of ten little chicks and the
mother hen which she has raised to fill her
honor badge in business.

4. Miss Vercy Wilkins, first Golden Gleaner of
the Franklin Ward, Mt. Graham Stake.

5. Class of Bee-Hive girls with one hundred percent
membership, Fifth Ward, Pocatello Stake.

M. I. A. Reading
Course Books

I DARE YOU

(William H. Danforth. Printed by the
author. St. Louis, Missouri. 1941.
134 pages. $1.25.)

T'his stimulating book will do much to
help youth set to work to accomplish
the things that they have wanted to do, but
hesitated to tackle. Its reading public will
not be limited to youth, however, because
adults will find that they too can learn much
by thinking success instead of failure. Using
the title of the book in many of the sub-
divisions, the author dares his readers to be
bigger than they are, to adventure, to do
things, to be strong, to think creatively, to
build character, to share.

M Men and Gleaners will find this volume
particularly provocative of good during the
next season. — M. C. J.

MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES
(A collection of stories of twenty-five au-
thors. Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake
City. 1941. 320 pages. $1.00)

T^his compilation contains thirty-four stir-
•*• ring, impressive, and faith-promoting
accounts of missionary experiences by early
leaders and missionaries of the Church, and
by some of our present-day authorities.
Brought under one cover by Preston Nibley
"under the direction of the Presiding Bish-

M I. A. READING COURSE
BOOKS REVIEWED

Executives

In the Gospel Net, page 571, this
issue; also page 732, December
1941 issue

Special Interest

Gospel Standards, page 672, No-
vember 1941 issue; also page 80,
February 1941 issue

M Men-Gleaners

/ Dare You, reviewed in this sec-
tion, page 594

M Men

Missionary Experiences, reviewed
in this section, page 594

Gleaners

Elizabeth, England's Modern
Queen, reviewed in this
section, page 595

Explorers

Missionary Experiences, reviewed,
page 594

Juniors

Maud, reviewed page 732, Decem-
ber 1939. Price reduced from
$3.00 to $1.49

Scouts

Lincoln, reviewed in this section,
page 595

Bee-Hive Girls

Clara Barton, reviewed page 549,
September 1941 issue

594

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opric," it is the work of twenty-five separate
authors whose true stories are more thrill-
ing than fiction. For young men and boys,
and for all the Church, the reading of these
evidences of the manner in which the Lord
molds the lives and shapes the destinies of
honest and obedient men, will be an unfor-
gettable experience. This book has been
adopted by the M. I. A. as the reading
course book for the M Men and the Ex-
plorers for the coming year. — R. L. B.

ELIZABETH, ENGLAND'S

MODERN QUEEN

(Cornelia Spencer. John Day Company,

New York. Illustrated. 1941.

210 pages. $2.00.)

CLOTHING the great with real-life char-
acteristics— neither by adulation nor
criticism — seems the particular capability of
Cornelia Spencer whose previous book
about the Soong sisters of China won so
much favorable comment as a reading course
book. In this book, the author has found
the innate gifts of England's present queen,
Elizabeth, and has written about them in
such a way that she both edifies and in-
terests her readers.

From knowing the essential friendliness
and the sterling worth of Queen Elizabeth,
we gain an additional respect for the coun-
try which produced her. By learning of
her willingness, no, even eagerness, to do
even menial work, we gain a new respect
for labor.

Gleaner Girls will find many fine char-
acteristics to emulate by reading this book.

— M. C. J.
LINCOLN

(Lucy Foster Madison. Illustrated.
Hampton Publishing Company. New York.
1928. 368 pages. $1.50.)

This biography of Lincoln will please
young folk since the fictional method
is used in developing the characters in the
book. There are many by-products from
a study of Lincoln's life which will be of
lasting value. Lincoln's unwillingness to
kill game for the sport of killing should bear
fruit in young lives. His eagerness to do
honest work of any sort so that he might
help himself and his family will prove of
value to young people. His unwavering
adherence to those things which he believed
will prove of especial value in today's
changing situations. His courage in the
face of his greatest losses will stimulate
others in present-day tragedies. — M. C. J.

ANSWERS TO "FIRSTS OF THE BIBLE" ON PAGE 546

THE AARONIC PRIESTHOOD

{Continued from page 591)
and for the Priesthood, and for the debts
of the Presidency of my Church;

"And this shall be the beginning of the
Tithing of my people; and after that, those
who have thus been tithed, shall pay one-
tenth of all their interest annually; and this
shall be a standing law unto them forever,
for my holy Priesthood, saith the Lord.

"Verily, I say unto you, it shall come to
pass, that all those who gather unto the
land of Zion, shall be tithed of their surplus
properties, and shall observe this law, or
they shall not be found worthy to abide
among you.

"And I say unto you, if my people ob-
serve not this law to keep it holy, and by
this law sanctify the land of Zion unto me,
that my statutes and my judgments may be
kept thereon, that it may be most holy, be-
hold, verily I say unto you, it shall not be
a land of Zion unto you, and this shall be
an ensample unto all the Stakes of Zion.
Even so. Amen."

(To be continued)

1. Let there be light . . . Gen. 1:3.

2. Noah ... the ark .. . Gen. 6:14,
22.

3. Cain . . . The City of Enoch . . .
Gen 4:17.

4. Moses . . . Num. 1:1.

5. Abram . . . Gen. 12:1-6.

6. When the morning stars sang to-
gether ... Job 38:7.

7. Ishmael . . . Gen. 16:11.

8. Song of Moses . . . Ex. 15.

9. Jewelry . . . Ex. 32:2.

10. The son of Zarephath's daughter
. . . 1 Kings 17:21.

11. Ararat . . . Gen. 8:4.

12. By God. After the creation . . .
Gen. 2:2, 3.

13. Repentance . . . Matt. 4:17.

14. The defeat of the armies of Israel
by the tribe of Benjamin . . . Judges
20:26.

15. God save the king ... 1 Sam.
10:24.

» ♦ ■

WILSHIRE WARD, LOS ANGELES STAKE, VARIETY SHOW

"Chow Off America," an original
^ variety show, was presented by a
cast of fifty M Men and Gleaner Girls
of the Wilshire Ward, Los Angeles
Stake, on April 28. It dramatized the
American way of life based on democ-
racy, defined by a speech once made
by Abraham Lincoln, who was charac-
terized in the play:

Democracy is more than a word. It al-
lows free agency as God intended. It al-
lows any man to become a leader, because
no shackles bind him- — he is free! It puts
a man on his honor — makes him want to
do unto others as he would have them do
unto him. He responds to his best nature
through freedom, not his ugly nature
through force. In democracy there is growth
and beauty and an aim toward perfection.
That's what we're defending — and so long
as we know what we are defending — so
long as we fight for what we wish to keep
— democracy will prove indestructible.

The scenes included navy, farmer,
South American, and specialty tap
dances; ensemble and trio singing; the
bombing of Pearl Harbor, a blackout, a
first aid station, and an army camp. The

finale introduced characters of the Rev-
olutionary War, the Civil War, and
World War II periods, weaving them
into a conclusive pattern of America.
Here the voice of America and the
voice of opposition saw the things that
America is defending, such as free
speech, freedom of the press, self gov-
ernment; and when opposition asks
again "What else?" the ensemble broke
forth in song with "Come, Come, Ye
Saints," while a Mormon missionary
came forward.

The presentation ended on the theme
that only in America could the restored
gospel be brought forth, and that Amer-
ica is a free people, a place where race
or creed hate cannot exist — a place
where the spirit of tolerance has been
and will be defended.

The play was written by M Man
Bob Olsen, and featured original music
by Gleaner Girl Betty May Nelson. It
was directed by Norma Jean Wright,
and Burdette Jordan acted as the mas-
ter of ceremonies.

CAST OF WILSHIRE WARD VARIETY SHOW
"SHOW OFF AMERICA"

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LOUIS DESCHAMPS
ConvsJtt

By FRANCIS DESCHAMPS

HThird PRIZE WINNING STORY
* IN SCOUT THEME PROJECT
CONTEST.

596

.dvised by the family
physician to strike out for the open
country for his health, Louis Des-
champs left Valley Field, Montreal,
Canada, at the age of thirteen and
headed into unfamiliar western coun-
try. Born of French parents, July 12,
1 839, Louis found himself considerably
handicapped because he knew no other
language, as he followed the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers en route to St.
Louis.

There he met and became acquainted
with three other Frenchmen, much old-
er than himself. Since they spoke his
language and were traveling in the same
direction, he decided to journey with
them.

One day a dreadful thing happened.
As the group came near the Missouri
River, an Indian squaw was seen kneel-
ing on the bank cleaning some fish.
One of the men shouldered his gun,
and in a boastful maner said:

"Watch me pick her off."

Before any of the others in the party
could protest, he had pulled the trigger,
and the Indian woman lay dead. A
group of Indians who were nearby
heard the shot and rushed upon the
men, and on examining the weapons
they carried found the barrel of the
gun, still warm, in the hands of the
man who had fired the shot. They then
knew which one did the terrible deed,
and were so overcome with frenzied
anger they seized the man and began a
most cruel torture. The two other men
and this mere boy were compelled to
stand by and look on. No words could
express the horror of it all, and the
only thought in their minds was the
realization that this very thing they be-
held, would be their fate, also. In
great agony the tortured man soon died,
and to the great surprise of the French-
men, the Indians then carried the squaw
away, leaving them amazed.

Louis then decided he had better seek
different companions, and parted with
the other two men. It so happened at
this time that many companies of Latter-
day Saints were leaving St. Louis to
begin their long journey westward. This
young lad was only too eager to make

acquaintanceship with them and so ac-
companied them — not to Pikes Peak as
was his intention when he left Canada,
but to Salt Lake City. Here he was
converted to the Church and was bap-
tized.

Cometime later, he married Ann Ste-
^ phens, a sister of the late Professor
Evan Stephens, one-time leader of the
Tabernacle Choir. She was at that
time a maid in the home of President
Brigham Young. They were married
in the Endowment House at Salt Lake.
They made their home at Willard, later
moving to Malad, Idaho, soon after
that valley was first settled. On a little
homestead a few miles west of Malad,
on what was called Devil Creek, they
made their home. A few years later
more settlers came, and together they
organized a little town and gave it the
name of St. John.

"Louie" Deschamps, as he was called,
was one of the leading men in the com-
munity in agriculture. Later, when he
was too old for farm work, his sons
took over that duty, and he and his wife,
successfully managed a small mercantile
establishment for the remainder of their
lives. He was the father of eleven chil-
dren, seven of whom were still living at
the time of his death, September 20th,
1902. He proved to be a devoted hus-
band, a loving father, and a loyal citi-
zen.

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Our Constitution Inspired

(Concluded from page 565)
portunity of consulting in peace on the
means of establishing our future felicity.
And have we now forgotten that powerful
Friend? Or do we imagine we no longer
need His assistance?

I have lived, sir, a long time; and the
longer I live the more convincing proofs I
see of this truth, that God governs in the
affairs of men. . . .

We have been assured, sir, in the sacred
writings, that except the Lord build the
house, they labor in vain that build it. I
firmly believe this, and I also believe that,
without His concurring aid, we shall suc-
ceed in this political building no better than
the builders of Babel; we shall be divided
by our little, partial, local interests, our
projects will be confounded, and we, our-
selves, shall become a reproach and a by-
word down the future ages. And what is
worse, mankind may hereafter from this un-
fortunate instance, despair of establishing
a government by human wisdom, and leave
it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore, beg to move

That henceforth prayers imploring the
assistance of heaven and its blessings on
our deliberations be held in this assembly
every morning before we proceed to busi-
ness, and that one or more of the clergy
of this city be requested to officiate in that
service.

These are not the words of. a fanatic.
Benjamin Franklin, by many of his col-
leagues, was not even considered as
being a religious man.

With such a background, Latter-day

Saints should be proud of the stand our
Church takes relative to the merits of
our great charter of liberty. Such a
position should make the membership
of the Church the most intelligent, dis-
tinct group of patriots in all the land,
and there should be no question as to
our position when the matter of con-
stitutional law is involved.

YOU MAY SMOKE"

CORRECTION

Inadvertently, this picture was pub-
lished in the June, 1942, Era as Earl

FRANCIS
DESCHAMPS

A. Checketts, Jr. The picture is of
Francis Deschamps, third place winner
in the M. I. A. Scout theme project
contest story, which appears in this is-
sue, on the opposite page.

(From Good Health, July 1942, p. 107.
Dr. John A. Widtsoe selected this item)

An English physician, Sir Maurice
"** Cassidy, in a communication to the
London Times {J. A. M. A.), severely
deprecates the fact that there is such
an amount of smoking "in the fighting
services. Most of the men seem to have
an unlimited supply of cigarets, which
they never cease to smoke. When he
asked if any attempt was made to curb
their addiction, they told him that it is
very difficult not to smoke when every-
body is smoking, that their officers
smoke as much as they do, and that a
lecture generally begins with the words
'You may smoke,' when everybody au-
tomatically lights a cigaret. Now these
men are being trained to fight for their
lives. Yet were they being trained for
a soccer cup tie or a boat race, their
smoking would be seriously restricted,
if not stopped. The cigaret impairs the
oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood
by the carbon monoxide inhaled. At
the same time it often ruins digestion
and diminishes resistance to respiratory
infection. We are rationed in meat,
milk, eggs, sugar, butter, and clothing.
Surely, says Sir Maurice Cassidy, the
time has come to ration tobacco and
thereby increase our efficiency."

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71/lcmhcdimL Sunday. Sc/wjoL J>Jwtic

HThe hit of the season in New York
City this year was the annual Man-
hattan Ward Sunday School "Spring
Frolic," held in their gym amid circus
atmosphere.

The circus atmosphere was not only
kept by the decorative murals on the
walls of "the Big Tent," but by the re-
freshments and music as well. In fact
the circus gorilla was operating the ele-
vator to and from the main event. From
nine o'clock on, it was everybody's
grand time. It moved forward quickly
through all the phases of a circus. Then
it closed on a serious note with every-
one joining in singing "Come, Come Ye
Saints," followed by the benediction.

This successful party was planned
and executed by the Manhattan Ward
Sunday School staff: Leslie H. Wads-
worth, superintendent; Mark B. Gard-
ner, first counselor; and Allando J. Bal-
lantyne, second counselor, who believe
that friendship and confidence are pow-

erful influences in welding the founda-
tion of an organization and in sustain-
ing growth and progress. In New York,
the city of long distance traveling, one
must devise attractive social vehicles
to maintain contacts and to keep a
closely knit, well coordinated organiza-
tion. The Manhattan Ward Sunday

SUNDAY SCHOOL STAFF OF MANHATTAN WARD

School is frequently recognized for its
hospitality toward members and visit-
ors. One of its customs is the annual
party which it sponsors for the enjoy-
ment of its members and their guests.

THE SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION

(Continued from page 563)
Almighty Being who rules over the
universe, who presides in the coun-
cils of nations, and whose providen-
tial aids can supply every human de-
fect."

Washington importuned similar
sentiments on other occasions, in-
cluding his famous farewell address.

That Washington kept before him
that "spark of celestial fire — con-
science" is attested by John Mar-
shall, the eminent justice of the Su-
preme Court, who wrote five volumes
on the first president's life. He says,
"No man has ever appeared upon
the theater of human action whose
integrity was more incorruptible."9

To frail, scholarly James Madison
of Virginia has been accorded the
distinguished title of "Father of the
Constitution." Physically and men-
tally, he was quite different from
Washington, being slight of build
and never a general but always a
brilliant student. Madison, like
Washington, however, was favored
with a rich religious background
which on several occasions shaped
his thinking — and that of whole leg-
islative halls!

Madison studied for the ministry. The
Hebrew language appealed to him. He
" 'explored the whole history and evi-
dences of Christianity on every side'- —
a feature which bore fruit in his early
years in the legislature, freedom of con-
science being established by law in Vir-
ginia largely by Madison's own labors
and influence."10

BJohn Marshall, "The Death of Washington," in
America (Vets, of Foreign Wars), Vol. IV, p. 251.

10Sarah K. Bolton, Famous American Statesmen,
pp. 157-8.

He fathered the provisions in Vir-
ginia's Bill of Rights, copied by other
states: "That religion, or duty we owe
to our Creator, and the manner of dis-
charging it, can be directed only by rea-
son and conviction, not by force and
violence; and, therefore, all men are
equally entitled to the free exercise of
religion according to the dictates of
conscience."

Elected a member of the first Virginia
legislature under its new constitution,
Madison "failed of re-election because
he refused to solicit votes or to furnish
whiskey for thirsty voters."11

Madison defended free agency in re-
ligion in his state on other occasions,
and his "Religious Freedom Act," trans-
lated into French and Italian, was wide-
ly read and commented upon in Europe.

This same Madison, it was, who drew
up the groundwork for the Constitu-
tion, who was historiographer for its
convention, and who successfully cham-
pioned its ratification in Virginia in face
of such formidable opposition as Pat-
rick Henry and Richard Henry Lee.

"VTo man did more for the Constitu-
■^ tion of the United States that did
a sandy-haired, handsome little figure
with piercing gray-blue eyes, and
pointed, classic nose who had come up
as a youth to the States from the West
Indies. He was Alexander Hamilton,
who, more than any other, was respon-
sible for the calling of the Constitution-
al Convention, and who was perhaps
its most forceful exponent in bringing
about its adoption by the several states.
But thirty years of age at the Con-
vention, Hamilton was indeed a prodi-
gy. By the time he was fifteen years

nJohn Fiske, Presidents of the United States, edited
by J. G. Wilson, pp. 161-2.

598

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THE SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION

old he had worked his way up to the
office of assistant manager in a trading
business in the Indies. At that age he
wrote an account of a hurricane on
the islands which won him immediate
recognition and the urge of friends to
seek fortunes in the colonies.

One of Hamilton's earliest and warm-
est friends was a Presbyterian minister,
the Reverend Hugh Knox, whose teach-
ings no doubt made a lasting impression
on the boy. Reverend Knox induced
Hamilton to go to the States, and when
Alexander departed he took with him
a few belongings, including a box of
books given him by the minister.

In many respects, Hamilton as an
American was a modern David. He
was fearless, brilliant in expression,
full of honor and integrity, though his
impetuousness sometimes led him to
err. Through his life are incidents
which reveal the importance he gave
to spiritual affairs.

In 1793, he wrote concerning the
French Revolution, which he abhorred:
"... When I find the doctrines of athe-
ism openly advanced in the convention
with loud applause . . . when I behold
the hand of rapacity outstretched to
prostrate and ravish the monuments of
religious worship erected by those citi-
zens and their ancestors ... I acknowl-
edge that I am glad to believe there is
no real semblance between what was

the cause of America and what is the
cause of France/'1^

Two years before his death, Hamil-
ton, then "an elder statesman" at the
age of forty-five, wrote to a friend,
James A. Bayard, suggesting methods
for building up the Federalist party. In
part, he said: "Let an association be
formed to be denominated 'The Chris-
tian Constitutional Society.' Its objects
to be: 1st. The support of the Chris-
tian religion. 2d The support of the
Constitution of the United States."13

When Hamilton's wife, Elizabeth
Schuyler Hamilton, died fifty-two years
after her husband, a little bag was found
tied around her neck. In it was a faded
paper containing love verses he had
writen her seventy-four years before.

Though he was advanced in years,
Benjamin Franklin gave to the Conven-
tion added prestige, profound thought,
and its clearest expression of the over-
ruling providence of God at the gath-
ering. Franklin once presented a pic-
turesque explanation of immortality by
writing his own epitaph: "The body
of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (like the
cover of an old book, its contents torn
out, and stript of its lettering and gild-
ing), lies here food for worms. Yet
the work itself shall not be lost, for it

^Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton, pp.
253-4.

™Ibid., p. 264.

will, as he believed, appear once more,
in a new and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended by the Au-
thor.""

Franklin gave expression to this his-
torical thought during the most trying
days of the Convention: "Mr. President,
the small progress we have made after
four or five weeks ... is, methinks, a
melancholy proof of the imperfection
of human understanding. . . In this situ-
ation of the assembly, groping as it
were . . . how has it happened, sir, that
we have not hitherto once thought of
humbly applying to the Father of lights,
to illuminate our understanding? . . .
The longer I live, the more convincing
proofs I see of this truth,- — that God
governs in the affairs of men."15

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pendence, Articles of Confederation,
(Concluded on page 600)

"Bernard Fay, Ftanklin, the Apostle of Modern
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THE SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION

{Concluded [rom page 599)

and the Constitution), and author of
the famous Compromise Plan at the
Convention, was a profound student of
theology. He published such papers as
A Short Sermon on the Duty of Self-
Examination and Preparatory to Re~
ceiving the Lord's Supper. A devout
Congregationalist, he contributed heav-
ily to the building of the chapel at Yale
University. Dr. William Samuel John-
son, another outstanding delegate,
studied for the ministry, and his ap-
pointment as first president of Columbia
College was a departure from the tra-
ditional practice of choosing college
presidents from the clergy. He was a
leading layman in the Anglican Church.
David Brearly, representative from
New Jersey, was a delegate to the Epis-
copal General Convention of 1786 and
helped compile the prayer book.

Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania,
a strong supporter of Hamilton's views
in government, was the largest single
contributor to the erection of St. Augus-
tine's Church in Philadelphia, and Rich-
ard Bassett, who was not only a Con-
stitutional delegate but later served as
Delaware's senator (1789-95) and
Governor (1799-1801), was an enthu-
siastic Methodist. He paid approxi-
mately half of the cost of the first Meth-
odist Church in Dover.

James McHenry, delegate from
Maryland, who had served as major in
Washington's army and who was
Washington's choice for Secretary of
War in 1796, served as president of the
first Bible Society founded in Baltimore
(1813). Hugh Williamson, represen-

tative from North Carolina at the Con-
vention, studied theology prior to en-
tering medicine, and was once licensed
to preach in Connecticut. He also
served in the Continental Congress
(1784-6) and in the first United States
Congress. A Georgia delegate, Abra-
ham Baldwin, was a chaplain in the
war. He later was a delegate to the
Continental Congress, member of the
House of Representatives, and the Sen-
ate, and was founder and first president
of the University of Georgia.

"He was a staunch believer in re-
vealed religion and a liberal giver of his
wealth to all good causes,"16 is the way
one biographer characterizes William
Few, the other Georgia delegate. He
was one of his state's first United States
senators.

Sheaves of other evidences of the
spiritual faith and practical integrity of
these founding fathers could be cited.

Indeed the framers of the Constitu-
tion were men "raised up unto this very
purpose." Benjamin Franklin saw with
prophetic eyes as he observed, look-
ing up at a painting of a rising sun im-
mediately behind the president's chair,
as the last delegates signed the docu-
ment: "I have often, and often in the
course of this session, and the vicissi-
tudes of my hopes and fears as to its
issue, looked at that behind the presi-
dent without being able to tell whether
it was rising or setting; but now at
length I have the happiness to know that
it is a rising and not a setting sun."1

"^Dictionary of American Biography, edited by
Dumas Malone, Vol. VI, p. 352.

17John T. Morse, Jr., Benjamin Franklin, p. 405.

EARLY CANADIAN BAPTISMS

600

( Continued from page 55 1 )
readily accepted. John Taylor and his
wife, who was the daughter of George
Cannon, grandfather of George Q. and
Angus M. Cannon, were greatly im-
pressed by the message they heard,
with the result that they became mem-
bers of the Church, and John Taylor
commenced to assist Elder Pratt in the
ministry. Other meetings were held and
many gathered to hear the new doc-
trines. The Lord poured out His Spirit
upon Elder Pratt; the sick were healed;
enemies were silenced; and the right-
eous were converted.

Now it happened that there were in
the city of Toronto a man by the
name of Joseph Fielding and his two
sisters, Mary and Mercy. They had
come from England, having been ac-
quainted with John Taylor, and were
members of his congregation. John
Taylor accompanied Elder Pratt to the
home of these good people and intro-
duced him to Joseph Fielding. Elder
Pratt's visit to this home was an inter-
esting one, and a part of this interview
is given in his words:

We called at Mr. Joseph Fielding's, an
acquaintance and friend of Mr. Taylor's.
This man had two sisters, young ladies,
who seeing us coming ran from their house
to one of the neighboring houses, lest they
should welcome, or give countenance to
"Mormonism." Mr. Fielding stayed, and
as we entered the house he said he was
sorry we had come. He had opposed our
holding meetings in the neighborhood; and,
so great was the prejudice, that the Method-
ist meeting house was closed against us,
and the minister refused, on Sunday, to
give out the appointment sent by the
farmer.

"Ah!" said I, "Why do they oppose
Mormonism?" "I don't know," he said,
"but the name has such a contemptible
sound; and, another thing, we do not want
a new revelation, or a new religion con-
trary to the Bible." "Oh!" said I, "if that is
all, we shall soon remove your prejudices.
Come, call home your sisters, and let's have
some supper. Did you say the appoint-
ment was not given out?" "I said, sir, that
it was not given out in the meetinghouse,
nor by the minister, but the farmer by
whom you sent it agreed to have it at
his house." "Come then, send for your
sisters, we will take supper with you, and
all go over to meeting together. If you and
your sisters will agree to this, I will agree

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

EARLY CANADIAN BAPTISMS

to preach the old Bible gospel, and leave
out all new revelations which are opposed
to it. . . ."

The honest man consented. The young
ladies came home, got us a good supper
and all went to the meeting.

The result of this meeting was that the
eyes of Joseph Fielding and his sisters
were opened and they were convinced
of the truth. Shortly after they were
baptized and moved to Kirtland. The
baptism of these Canadian converts
took place in the stream pictured here,
which ran through the farmland owned
by Isaac Russell, who also received the
message. The Russell farm became the
gathering place of these new converts.
When the first missionaries were sent
to Great Britain, Joseph Fielding and
Isaac Russell were members of that
group. Joseph Fielding piloted the
group, under Elder Heber C. Kimball,
to Preston, where the Reverend James
Fielding, a brother of Joseph Fielding,
was pastor of the Vauxhall Church.
Here the first European converts were
made in this dispensation. The Rev-
erend James Fielding received his broth-
er and the other missionaries kindly,
but when they took from him a large

part of his congregation, he turned
against them and denied them further
use of his church.

Mary Fielding, shortly after she ar-
rived in Kirtland, became the wife of
the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, and the
mother of President Joseph F. Smith.
Her life was one filled with tragedy and
tribulation, but through it all she never
faltered. She was one of the noble
women called upon to suffer extremely
for the sake of the gospel. Her loyalty
and integrity stamped upon the soul of
her youthful son the lesson which great-
ly aided in forming his character and
his devotion to the Church. The other
sister, Mercy, married Elder Robert B.
Thompson, who at the time of his death
in Nauvoo, was secretary to the Proph-
et Joseph Smith. Both of these sisters
crossed the plains without faltering,
without complaint, through all the hard-
ships of those trying times. The de-
scendants of these good people are nu-
merous, and many of them are active in
the Church. We do well to show honor
to such characters and the multitude
of faithful souls who helped to lay the
foundation of the work of the Lord in
those days of tribulation and suffering.

GOSPEL TENT CAMPAIGN

{Concluded from page 558)
filled the air with the soul of melody.
The charm and inspiration given by
that sweet musical bird was a bril-
liant prelude to the service. Georgia's
poet-laureate, Frank L. Stanton, who
is well acquainted with the melody
of the mocking bird, pays it the fol-
lowing tribute:

He didn't know much music

When he first came along;
An' all the birds went wondering

Why he didn't sing a song.
They primped their feathers in the sun,

An' sang their sweetest notes;
An' music jest come on the run

From all their pretty throats.

But still the bird was silent
In the summer time an' fall,

He jest set still an' listened.
An' he wouldn't sing at all!

But on one night when the songsters

Were tired out an' still,
An' the wind sighed down the valley

An' went creeping up the hill —

When the stars were all atremble
In the dreaming fields of blue,

An' the daisy in the darkness
Felt the fallin' o' the dew —

There came a sound o' melody

No mortal ever heard,
An' all the birds seemed singing

From the throat o' one sweet bird.
Then the other birds went May in'

In a land too fur to call;
Fer there weren't no use in staying

When one bird could sing for all!

Tn a certain city, in the dead of
night, a band of disguised maraud-
ers allegedly led by a policeman and
two city officials, wrecked the tent

and hauled it away a distance of
several miles. This unlawful and
violent act moved the honorable men
of the city to righteous indignation.
In a letter to the mission president
they proffered financial aid to prose-
cute the perpetrators of that outrage.

The sequel to that which went be-
fore came a few days later. An un-
fortunate man, crazed by a business
deal in which he felt that he had
been cheated, ran amuck. He shot
to death several men and among
them were the alleged leaders of that
midnight raid upon the gospel tent.

In that city the work of the Lord
has grown apace, and numerous res-
idents have with joy and gladness
received the gospel.

The gospel tent campaign lasted
about a year, much prejudice was al-
layed and wherever the tent meet-
ings were held, public halls frequent-
ly were offered to the elders without
a rental charge. Non-members as-
sisted in defraying the expenses that
were incurred in that tour. The city
officials, with the exception noted,
were fair in selecting sites for the
gospel tent. The elders in charge
of this strenuous work acquitted
themselves very creditably. Scorn-
ing the empty words of philosophy,
they preached with power the gospel
that was once delivered to the Saints,
and the Lord blessed their work with
abundant success.

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deserve wide reading nowadays. This
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have been coming to life beyond life in
modern literature. She takes her place along
with such delightful persons as Mrs. Mini-
ver, Mrs. Appleyard. All of them lend the
correct emphasis to true values by whole-
someness of their outlook on life in general
and on family life in particular. — M. C. /.

ADVENTURES IN
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Turner E. Smith & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
207 pages. $1.60.)

The current interest in learning the Span-
ish language makes this clever book
especially significant. The first section deals
with the grammar, idioms, and vocabulary;
the second, with Las Aventures de Don
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rich in Spanish idioms. Throughout the
book information concerning the Latin-
American peoples is inserted.

This book will prove of great worth to
those who are eager to speak Spanish as
it is spoken in Latin America. — M. C. J.

PANGOAN DIARY

(Ruth Harkness. Illustrated. Creative
Age Press, New York. 1942.
295 pages. $2.50.)

"P) uth Harkness made a name for herself
■Tv when she went into the remote regions
of China and brought back the first panda
to be removed successfully. In Pangoan
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ence in seeking for the little silver-gray
bear of Peru. But the book is more than .
a mere travel book; it is a moving human
document, indicating the differences that
North Americans must be prepared to meet
and surmount in making the two western

continents friends. Also as a naturalist,
Mrs. Harkness makes the country live in
all its beauty and its fearsomeness. — M. C. /.

FAMOUS IN THEIR TWENTIES

(Charlotte Himber. Association Press,
New York. 1942. 128 pages. $1.50.)

IN the Foreword to this stirring volume,
the author states that people chosen in
this book were chosen by young people
themselves who constituted her "editorial
board." Then they were interviewed, and
divergent as the interests of these famous
folk were, there were certain qualities that
they possessed in common: they love to
work; they are persistent; they are self-
confident; they are happy — and "neither
money nor any material possessions have
anything to do with their happiness." And
an additional likeness: "most of them suc-
ceeded in an era of depression."

Among those discussed are: Alec Tem-
pleton, Lowell Thomas, Alice Marble, Paul
Robeson, and Margaret Bourke-White. In
their lives the reader will find struggles but
greater, they will find ambitions that would
not be downed. Stimulating reading is as-
sured both old and young in Famous in
Their Twenties. — M. C. /.

THE DAYS OF OFELIA
(Gertrude Diamant. Illustrated. Hough-
ton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1942.
226 pages. $2.75.)

Ofelia Escoto was a little Mexican girl
who took the author under her wing
when Miss Diamant went house-hunting.
Strangely enough Ofelia became the theme
of the author's song, for through this young
girl and her family, she learned the every-
day ways of Mexican living: how they
think and feel, what they eat and wear.
There is a delightful intimacy about this
volume that makes the book well worth
reading as a friendly introduction to the
land of fiestas and cathedrals. — M. C. J.

PROMONTORY

602

(Continued from page 560)

W. M. Shilling of Ogden, under the
supervision of Western Union Su-
perintendent W. B. Hibbard, sat at
the key.

The actual laying of the last rails
and the driving of the final spikes
were accomplished just before noon.
The last tie, of polished native ma-
hogany, or laurel, was eight feet
long, eight inches wide, and six in-
ches thick, and bore an inscribed
silver plate seven inches long and
six inches wide. Holes for the gol-
den spike had previously been bored
in this tie, which was donated by
Evans, the Central Pacific contrac-
tor. In addition to the tie there was
the last spike of solid gold, of regu-
lation size, about seven inches long,
presented by David Herves of San
Francisco. The value of the spike
was set by Sacramento news report-
ers at $413. The silver-headed maul
for driving the golden spike into the
laurel tie had been presented by the
Pacific Union Express Company.

Picked crews of track layers, rep-

resenting the construction forces of
the two companies, each brought for-
ward its rail for the final connection.
To Vice President T. C. Durant of
the Union Pacific, Commissioner F.
A. Trytle of Nevada presented a
spike of silver from the Comstock
lodes. Governor Safford of Ari-
zona had a spike of gold, silver, and
iron; Utah and Montana furnished
spikes of silver and gold. President
Leland Stanford of the Central Pa-
cific was given the privilege of driv-
ing the golden spike. Immediately
this message was telegraphed to
President U. S. Grant at Washing-
ton, D. C:

Promontory Summit, Utah,
May 10, 1869.

The last rail is laid, the last spike is driven.
The Pacific Railroad is completed. The
point of junction is 1,086 miles west of the
Missouri River and 690 miles east of Sacra-
mento City.

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Promontory

'T'he two engines, Central Pacific's
The Jupiter ( No. 60 ) and Union
Pacific's No. 119, were uncoupled
from their trains and bearing cling-
ing hordes of spectators, alternately
passed over the connections.

Later in the day the spikes of pre-
cious metal and the laurel tie were
removed from the track, and a regu-
lation tie and spikes were substi-
tuted. Souvenir seekers now came
from far and near to hack at the
ordinary tie and rails. It is a matter
of history that they destroyed six
ties and two rails before the spot was
left to slower destruction by the ele-
ments of nature.

The laurel tie and the famous gold
spike were taken back to California.
The tie was destroyed in the San
Francisco earthquake and fire of
April, 1906. The spike is still a
museum piece.

The coming of the railroad to
Utah wrought a great many changes.
Mining now proved profitable. A
broad market for Utah products was
now obtainable where there had
been only limited opportunity before.
The coming of the railroad meant an
end to crossing the plains by prairie
schooner, and the various means
used by the Saints in the twenty-
two-year previous period. But it
did not increase the immigration of
Saints to Utah. Perpetual Emigrat-
ing Fund statistics record that dur-
ing the eight-year period before the
completion of the railroad, six thou-
sand six hundred forty-four more
emigrants came to Utah than in the
eight-year period following the com-
pletion of the railroad.

With the opening of the Lucin
cutoff across Great Salt Lake in
1904, transcontinental trains went to
"sea by rail" and the Promontory
unit became a branch line.

Curiously enough, one of the ar-
guments for the Pacific Railroad Act
of 1862 was the protection of the
western coast against the possibilities
of foreign invasion. One of the rea-
sons for the abandonment of the last
link of the original road in 1942 is
to obtain the old rails for new spur
tracks to serve defense industries.

As the salvage crews reached the
site of the golden spike, special serv-
ices were attended by remaining
pioneers and officials of state. As
they left, Promontory settled down
into deep sleep, dreaming of that
one day back in 'sixty-nine when
the eyes of the world were turned
upon her.

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DESERET NEWS TROUBADOURS" MAKE HISTORY

(Concluded from page 575)
Utah's pioneer newspaper has al-
ways had singers among its employees,
and immediately after its founding,
June 15, 1850, prominent soloists and
leaders in music gained popularity for
the paper by means of song.

\Vith this introduction it is no won-
der that on January 18, 1938, a group
of employees met and organized a male
chorus, with Frank Craven as presi-
dent; Ross Fox, manager; Don Priest-
ley, director; Mrs. Emma Petersen,
wife of present Manager Mark E. Pe-
tersen, accompanist; Leo Young, sec-
retary, and Charles Hunt, librarian.
Miss Bessie Murk later became accom-
panist and has continued ever since.
Their first public appearance was in
the 28th Ward, Sunday, April 10, 1938,
and since that time they have sung in
practically every ward in Salt Lake
City. Two special busses recently took
the chorus, now composed of thirty-
seven men to Ogden, and special trips
by individual cars have been taken to
Provo, Ogden, Draper, Kaysville, and
Syracuse. They have sung over KSL
and KDYL.

New officers have recently been
elected for this organization as follows :
Kenneth E. Bourne, president; Con
Harrison, vice-president; Lee Eddy,
secretary; and Leo Young continues as
treasurer; Bessie Murk, pianist, and
Werner H. Rossberg, assistant accom-
panist.

Don Priestley who assisted in the
organization has faithfully rehearsed
the men each Monday with Wilford
Craven as assistant director.

Director Priestley and his wife Myn
Whiting, soprano soloist, deserve unus-
ual credit for they have missed but few
concerts and Mr. Craven, Miss Murk
and the many artists and speakers who
have given of their time are greatly ap-
preciated.

An idea of the permanent and solid
character of the chorus personnel may
be obtained from the following data :

All are members of the L. D. S.
Church and practically all hold some
office in the Priesthood. A majority
have been on foreign missions, nearly
all hold some office in Church organ-
izations— a member of a stake presi-
dency, a bishop's counselor, presidents
and counselors of Priesthood quorums,
secretaries, teachers, superintendents
and heads of auxiliary organizations,
choir leaders and home missionaries,
and so on through a long list. One man
has been with The Deseret News for
more than fifty years and the average is
sixteen years.

They have presented at least two
programs each month, and many extras.
They have taken just pride in furnish-
ing a speaker as well as the music on
the program when the occasion is pro-
pitious. Their message always is one of
good will and a stand for good music
and the better things in life.

The Church Moves On

{Concluded from page 593)
1912; excommunicated Apr. 18, 1941, in the
Toledo Branch, Northern States Mission.

Martin Enid Mortenson, born Apr. 23,
1900; (elder) excommunicated Feb. 16,
1941, in the Douglas Branch, California
Mission.

Etta Chadduck Mulkey, born Sept. 27,
1894; excommunicated July 10, 1941, in the
East Oklahoma District, Central States Mis-
sion.

Edward Everett Nolan, born Nov. 14,
1877; excommunicated Apr. 27, 1941, in the
Billings Branch, North Central States Mis-
sion.

Martha Elizabeth Nolan, born Tune 9,
1914; excommunicated Apr. 27, 1941, in the
Billings Branch, North Central States Mis-
sion.

Mary Elizabeth Kusch Nolan, born Dec.
25, 1887; excommunicated Apr. 27, 1941,
in the Billings Branch, North Central States
Mission.

Alice Maud Prescott Oakley, born Jan. 5,
1894; excommunicated Jan. 8, 1940, in the
Handsworth Branch, British Mission.

George Oakley, born Jan. 18, 1894; ex-
communicated Jan. 8, 1940, in the Hands-
worth Branch, British Mission.

John William Oakley, born May 11, 1891;
excommunicated Jan. 1, 1940, in the Hands-
worth Branch, British Mission.

Willie Persick, born Sept. 12, 1883; ex-
communicated June 26, 1941, in the Holden
Branch, Texas Mission.

Wilhelm Ramsdorf, born Jan. 20, 1905;
(elder) excommunicated February 3, 1941,
in the Joinville Branch, Brazilian Mission.

Bessie O. Rhoades, born Dec. 1, 1892;
excommunicated June 9, 1941, in the Munice
Branch, Northern States Mission.

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604

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

PRESIDENT J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., FARMER

{Continued from page 557)
Salt Lake, are seven hundred eighty-
six acres of land, partially irrigated
by flowing wells, some of which will
come under the plow, while the re-
mainder will serve as winter pasture,
along with grazing rights on Stans-
bury island. His grazing rights,
pastures, and hay production will
enable him to run about two hundred
head of cattle.

It is not an excessively large farm.
Many farmers have larger ones and
apparently more prosperous ones.
However though acreage and fer-
tility are important, the manner in
which a farm is used is of greatest
importance. The parts of the Clark
farm fit together, in the policy of the
owner, to make the farm as nearly as
possible a self-sustaining property.
For example, all the work horses on
the farm are brood mares, thus the
horsepower needed is a product of
the farm itself. Likewise, the farm
produces the winter feed necessary

PRESIDENT J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., STANDING
BESIDE A LARGE STACK OF WILD HAY AT HIS
GRANTSVILLE FARM.

for the animals on summer range.
The idea is to have the flow of cash
toward, not out of the farm. The
law of self-containment is as a
foundation stone of social, economic
welfare.

The livestock on the farm has

MICHAEL GRASS. THIS IS A SEED-BEARING
GRASS WHICH HAS THE APPEARANCE OF RYE,
AND IS ADAPTED TO BOTH GRAZING AND
HARVESTING DURING THE SAME YEAR. IT ISA
PERENNIAL WHICH IS GROWING ON DRY LAND
IN THE FOOTHILLS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH-
WEST OF THE GRANTSVILLE FARM. MICHAEL
GRASS STANDS APPROXIMATELY 36 INCHES
HIGH ON DRY LAND.

been chosen with great care. Horses,
cows, pigs, and poultry are high bred
— therefore more profitable — an-
other example to farmers every-
where. The farm machinery fits the
special needs of the places farmed.
The endeavor to build a farm intel-
ligently toward prosperity without
great or needless expenditure, is
everywhere evident.

The accompanying illustrations
(Concluded on page 607)

PRESIDENT CLARK
IS SEEN WITH HIS
PUREBRED PER-
CHERON STALLION.

HINTS

on the care of your

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• Clean the inside of the
toaster occasionally.
Use a soft brush to re-
move the crumbs. Be
careful not to bend or
injure the heating ele-
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•

Keep 'em working!

For service or repair of appliances —

See Your Electric Dealer
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605

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

SOLUTION TO AUGUST PUZZLE Scriptural Crossword Puzzle-The Sermon On The Mount

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"And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set,
his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying."

:;: : —Matt. 5:1, 2.

ACROSS

1 "but ... be cast out"
3 ". . . are the merciful"
8 Mother

10 Man

11 Part of Massachusetts

12 Book of Old Testament

13 "Ye ... the salt of the earth"

16 "Ye are . . . light of the world"

17 "to ... I am ashamed" Luke 16: 3

18 Changeling

20 "the ... is not yet" Matt. 24: 6

22 "keep thyself ..." 1 Tim. 5: 22

23 "your Father which is . . , heaven"

25 Note

26 Distribute

28 "even . . . your Father which

heaven is perfect"

29 Tellurium

30 "lowly in . . ." Matt. 11: 29

is in

35 Climbing shrub

36 Animal

38 Black bird

39 Asiatic tree

40 ". . . they shall be comforted"
42 "for . . . shall be filled"

44 Old note

45 One who excels

46 Hebrew month Neh. 6: 15

48 From

49 "for they . . . obtain mercy"

51 ". . . his own soul" Matt. 16: 26

52 Slave

53 ". . . with him twain"

55 A matter

56 "may . . . your good works"

57 "called the children of . . ."

One of the Beatitudes is 3, 13, 16, 22,

33 Near the ear

23, 30, 40, 42, 49, 56, and 57 combined

DOWN

1 The "sermon" contains ... .

24 New

2 Percolate

27 "appoint the . . . over the tabernacle

3 Snake

, of testimony"; live set (anag.)

4 Palmetto State

31 Acres collectively

5 Jesus, wearied with his

journey,

32 The whole

". . . thus on the well"

34 Twelfth president of the U. S.

6 "the sons of . . ." Jer. 40: 8

37 New England state

7 River in Scotland

40 Appearances of an object (Ref. Sp.)

8 "he went up into a . . ."

41 Oh (Irish and Scot.)

9 Public notice

43 Fish

14 Road

47 Employer

15 "smote off his . . ." Matt. 26

50 "and, . . . , I am with you alway, even

19 Containing iron

unto the end of the world" Matt.

21 "his . . . came unto- him"

28: 20

22 Exclamation of contempt

54 "Take . . . thought for your life"

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, SEPTEMBER, 1942

PRESIDENT J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., FARMER

(Concluded from page 605)
show some parts of the farm and its
surroundings.

Farming is more than a business.
It is a mode of living under the open
sky, in daily contact with the forces
of nature, with freedom to set one's
days and hours, an independence
seldom found in other pursuits. If

money be the only objective, other
ways of living may be more alluring.
But the new world that we are facing
seems to place a low value on money,
and makes the land appear a safer
source of income. It is a never-to-
be-forgotten fact, that the blood of
the farms makes the cities and other
professions survive.

That may be why President J.
Reuben Clark, Jr., has invested his
life's material fruits in the land. But
greater still is his faith in the teach-
ings of the Church to which he has
given his life's loyalty. He has set
the Church a good example. May
others heed his example, and do like-
wise.

EVIDENCES AND RECONCILIATIONS

(Concluded from page 577)
murders, and other acts of darkness
characterize an age rich in knowl-
edge.

In this day, a Church that makes
religion a week-day affair is peculiar,
indeed.

Fifth. Most astonishing of all, the
most peculiar thing about the Lat-
ter-day Saints — so it seems to our
weak generation — is that its mem-
bers have the courage to live up to
their beliefs in the face of adverse
practices. The Mormon in a social
gathering refuses the cocktail with
a smile and a "thank you." Among
companions who smoke he keeps his
mouth and lungs clean and sweet.
When others make Sunday a bois-
terous holiday, he spends part of it

attending to his Church duties.
Amidst immorality, he keeps himself
clean, and goes to his wife as pure
as he expects her to be and continues
so throughout life. He tries to follow
the admonition of the Savior, to be
in the world, but not of the world.
The world marvels at such daring,
but admires it. Men who love truth
above all else, who are guided in
their lives by the principles of truth
and who dare to conform to them,
despite temptation or scoffing com-
panions, are the truly honored ones
in the minds of saints or sinners.
They are the ones the world is hop-
ing and praying for to lead humanity
into peace and happiness. But such
courage makes of us a peculiar peo-
ple.

We should indeed be proud to
exchange error for truth, to seek ur-
gently for all truth, and to build
truth, every day and everywhere in-
to our lives. By that path we shall
reach individual and collective hap-
piness and power, and become able
to serve our confused and unhappy
world. If these be peculiarities, let
us thank the Lord for them.

The Latter-day Saints are a pe-
culiar people. So were the Former-
day Saints. Hear the words of Peter,
the apostle, "Ye are a chosen gen-
eration, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light." ( 1 Peter
2:9)— J. AW.

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The University of Utah is fully cooperating with the United States war program and is accredit-
ed in the ARMY ENLISTED RESERVE CORPS, AND ARMY AIR FORCE ENLISTED RESERVE; NAVY
V-l, NAVY V-5 (aviation) AND NAVY V-7; MARINE ENLISTED RESERVE AND COAST GUARD EN-
LISTED RESERVE.

These programs will permit many men students to complete their education before being called
to active service and also gives to educational institutions a vital role in the country's all out war
effort.

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September 24 — Engineering Examination

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September 28 — Registration of Sophomores, and all Upper Division students

September 29 — Fall Quarter Class Work Begins

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607

LET'S SAY IT CORRECTLY
CONCERNED

When mistakes and difficulties are brought to our attention
by those in charge, are we embarrassed, worried, resent-
ful, or concerned.

To be embarrassed may indicate that we are unable to handle
the situation.

To be worried may mean we are fretful and weak.

To be resentful may show wrong attitude, closed mind,
narrow disposition.

Intelligent concern, arouses thoughtful action, and leads to
sensible results. Are we concerned about the company we work
for, the city we live in, the government we uphold, the family
we support, the Church we know is true?

The pessimist looks for the flaws in others, the lazy person
thinks it takes too much effort, the careless person figures on
just getting by, the industrious person becomes concerned, sees
the need, concentrates on his work, and solves the problem.

This contribution was made by
Grant M. Broadhead,
El Centre California.

L. D. S. SOLDIERS AT SHEPPARD FIELD

Although there are rapid changes and replacements of men
at Sheppard Field, Texas, the group of Mormon soldier boys
hold regular Church meetings which are conducted by the ap-
pointed elders, and supervised by one of the army chaplains who
has taken an interest in the group's welfare.

In July there were nearly ninety Latter-day Saint soldiers
stationed at Sheppard Field, which plays a two-fold purpose,
replacing soldiers and training aviation mechanics. Thirty-two
of this number have served as long term missionaries for the
Church.

The entire group desires to send their deepest love and bless-
ings to the Church through the pages of the Era.

Reported by Jack R. Price.

HIGH COST OF WAR FATALITIES

Dy dividing the total cost of all belligerents by the number of
■*-' fatalities, it costs one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars
to kill a soldier in the present war. On the same basis, it cost
only seventy-five cents to kill one of Caesar's legionnaires, fifty
dollars in the Thirty Years' War (1648), five thousand dollars
in the American Civil War, and fifty thousand dollars in World

War l Albert L. Zobell, Jr.,

From Los Angeles Times
$

Dear Era Folk:

One of our joys this summer has been the reports that have
come back from the soldier boys. They not only look for-
ward to the Era's coming, but many other boys not of our faith,
are reading every issue that comes until one boy states that his
magazine is almost worn out before he gets a chance to read
it. Everyone tells him what a fine magazine it is.

The past year has been a real privilege while working with
you. The friendly letters you send are always inspiring.

Sincerely your brother and sister,

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shanks.

-®

Dear Editor:

f would like to tell you how I appreciate the Era, its wise
* counsel, its Church history, its sketches from noble lives that
help us to aim for higher ideals and many other things that
are too numerous to mention.

It is the one magazine that a mother can feel safe when her
child picks it up to read. There are no lurid pictures or ad-
vertisements, no stories that put false ideas in their heads.

I am thankful my daughter, Eloise, saw its superiority and
was able to add it to our reading list.

Very sincerely,

Mrs. Myrtle G. Olsen.

MUTUAL

Patient: "Doctor, I must tell you that this is my first opera-
tion and that I'm nearly scared to death."

Youthful Surgeon: "Yes, I know just how you feel. It's
my first, too."

MATRIMONIAL QUIZ

Mrs. Yearwed: "Getting tired of married life already, my
dear?"

Mrs. Junewed: "Gracious, no! It's lots of fun. Tom builds
things and I cook, and the game is to guess what they're sup-
posed to be!"

AN EASY PROBLEM

"Look here," said the unhappy visitor, "I lost my wife* and
three children. I've walked the streets for two hours and I
haven't the slightest idea of where they could be — "

"You'll find the dime store," said the policeman, "two
blocks north, to your left."

ONE THING IS HARDER

Dorothy (admiring her engagement ring): "There's nothing
in the world harder than a diamond, is there?"

Howard: "Yes, sweetheart, keeping up the instalment pay-
ments on it."

HIS REWARD

Saint Peter handed the new arrival a golden trumpet.
"But I can't play this thing," protested the newcomer. "I
never practiced playing a trumpet while I was on earth."
"Of course you didn't or you wouldn't be here."

HOPE REALIZED

Bill: "Have you ever realized any of your childhood hopes?"
Pete: "Yes, when mother used to comb my hair I often
wished I didn't have any."

THE RIGHT NAME FOR IT

Jimmy: "My Uncle Larry's got exclamatory rheumatism."
Johnnie: "You mean inflammatory rheumatism, don't you?"
Jimmie: "Nope, I mean exclamatory — every time he tries
to move he yells."

OR DIGGING A WELL?

Teacher: "There's only one way to learn in this world,
young man, and that is to begin at the bottom."

Elmer: "How's about when you're learning to swim,
teacher?"

ANOTHER CASE OF KID NAPPING

The mathematics teacher noticed that one of her pupils was
day dreaming and not following the work on the blackboard.
To recall his attention, she said sharply:

"Board, Jenkins, board!"

The boy, startled, looked up.

"Yes, ma'am, very!" came the reply.

EASY DOES IT

Professor: "Can you prove that the square of the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides of the
triangle?"

Student: "No, sir. But I'm willing to admit it."

SLIGHT CHANGE

"I suppose the gas rationing has slowed down the pace of
life for you people in the East?"

"Not at all. I used to walk to the car; now I run for the
bus."

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